The Green Ray

This summer, I was traveling with SAS Airlines.  The airlines added a tail camera view to the passengers' menu, so with a click on the screen we could choose to see the airplane flying some 40,000 feet above the ground.  What a cool feature!  

When watching the sunrise, I witnessed a rare occurrence of a green ray of the Sun.  I have heard about that phenomenon, but have never seen it.  It was astonishing to see; as a human, as a human, I just remained overwhelmed by the beauty of nature; as a physicist, I admired the refraction of light from a new perspective.  Here is the picture: