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    Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are...
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    of the condensation nuclei required for the formation of noctilucent cloud. Noctilucent clouds have four major types based on physical structure and appearance...
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    according to specific details of their physical structures. Noctilucent clouds are thin clouds that come in a variety of forms based from about 80 to 85...
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    AZ. Aug 6th, 2022 Weather portal Polar stratospheric cloud Circumhorizontal arc Noctilucent cloud Gedzelman, Stanley David (1 June 1988). "In Praise of...
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    nacreous PSCs. Aurora Circumhorizontal arc Cloud iridescence Noctilucent clouds "Polar stratospheric clouds / Observations". Australian Antarctic Division...
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    momentum into the mesosphere and largely drives global circulation. Noctilucent clouds are located in the mesosphere. The upper mesosphere is also the region...
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    NASA studied inducing noctilucent clouds in 1960 and 2009. In 1984 satellites from three nations took part in an artificial cloud experiment as part of...
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  • ice on Mars. Such clouds can be sufficiently large and dense to cast shadows on the Martian surface. Cirrus and noctilucent clouds on Earth contain ice...
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  • been allocated for detailed spectroscopic analysis of high-altitude noctilucent cloud formations on suborbital flights using rapidly reusable, task-and-deploy...
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  • Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (category Cloud types)
    space. The clouds thus generated are intended to simulate naturally occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, which are the highest clouds in the atmosphere...
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    Polar stratospheric clouds are seen but rarely in winter at altitudes of 18 to 30 kilometers, while in summer, noctilucent clouds occasionally form at...
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    in 1996. A noctilucent cloud was created by the exhaust gas from the Delta II 7925 rocket used to launch Phoenix. The colors in the cloud formed from...
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    in the sky". NASA reported that the light came from an artificial noctilucent cloud formed by the exhaust particles of the rocket's fourth stage at an...
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  • (polar light: see) aurora (astronomy) polar low (polar mesospheric cloud) noctilucent cloud polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE) polar night polar region...
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    photographed with a combination of large zoom with long exposure. Noctilucent clouds – this only occurs in early summer. Because of its brightness, it...
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    yet unexplained, it had some similarity in appearance to either a noctilucent cloud or an upper tangent arc. However, Maunder wrote that the phenomenon...
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    amounts of water vapour in the upper atmosphere. They compared the noctilucent cloud phenomenon to the exhaust plume from NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle...
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    thunder. Low, ragged fractus clouds frequently occur below nimbostratus and may or may not merge with it. noctilucent cloud nonadiabatic process See diabatic...
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    red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES Water sky Alpenglow Nacreous cloud Noctilucent cloud Sunset#Colors Sunrise#Colors "Atmospheric optics - AMS Glossary"...
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  • nuclear missile strike, and reports of unidentified flying objects. Noctilucent cloud Exhaust gas Contrail Twilight phenomenon Iridium-NEXT launch SpaceX-4...
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  • mesopause temperature minimum at 88 km, and above the noctilucent cloud (NLC) and/or polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) layer at 83–84 km. The usual instrument for...
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    since the sun never dips more than 18 degrees below the horizon. Noctilucent clouds are best observed within this range of latitude. Subarctic temperatures...
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  • Cooling Next Level Chef (American TV series) Next Linear Collider Noctilucent cloud, rare bright cloudlike atmospheric phenomena visible in a deep twilight...
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    altitude can condense into polar-mesospheric noctilucent clouds of ice particles. These are the highest clouds in the atmosphere and may be visible to the...
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    scientists to investigate the nature of Earth's ionosphere, as well as noctilucent clouds and the behavior of ice in space. SA-2's dummy upper stages contained...
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  • PhysMath Central, a defunct journal imprint Polar mesospheric clouds, also known as noctilucent clouds, a weather phenomenon Pontine micturition center, part...
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    responsible for noctilucent clouds on Earth and is usually formed by deposition of water vapor in cold or vacuum conditions. Ice clouds form at and below...
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    a Trident II ballistic missile test firing from the USS Kentucky. Noctilucent clouds Space jellyfish "Twilight phenomenon lights up sky". McKee, Maggie...
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  • applications including aerosol measurements, sub-visible cirrus and noctilucent clouds observations, and visibility measurement A simplified representation...
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    refracted light ranges from purple to blue, often resulting in glowing noctilucent clouds. Venus and Mercury have long nights because of their slow rotational...
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