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Night Glowing Clouds Return: Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins

Thursday, July 7, 2011 16:03

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In Poland, noctilucent clouds season is the time of young stork births. Thousands of storks (Ciconia ciconia) arrive in Polish each spring. This photo was captured on June 26, 2011.

Credit: NASA/Marek Nikodem

When noctilucent clouds (NLCs) first appeared in the 19th century, they were a high-latitude phenomenon. You had to travel toward the poles to see their electric-blue glow. Not anymore. Just this past weekend, these beautiful, “night-shining” clouds spilled over the Canadian border into the lower United States as far south as Denver, Colorado.

Dave Hughes photographed the NLCs near Edmonton, Alberta Canada on July 2, 2011.

Credit: NASA/Dave Hughes

In recent years, a NASA spacecraft called AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) has spotted the clouds appearing ever lower in latitudes, but just why is not yet known. AIM studies the clouds in order to better understand our lower atmosphere and how it is connected to weather and climate.

This image of NLCs was taken by Adrian Maricic at Loch Leven, Fife Scotland on July 2, 2011.

Credit: NASA/Adrian Maricic

The clouds are seasonal, appearing most often in late spring and summer. In the northern hemisphere, the best time to search for these beauties would be between mid-May and the end of August.

NLCs on July 3, 2011 in Lock Leven, Fife Scotland.

Credit: NASA/Adrian Maricic

Contacts and sources:
Karen C. Fox/Tony Phillips/Holly Zell
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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