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Night-Shining Clouds

High-altitude clouds appeared as far south as the continental United States in early June 2015.


NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using Polar Mesospheric Cloud data from the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published June 19, 2015
Data acquired June 10, 2015

Source:
AIM
Collection:
Earth at Night