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A Day of Night-Shining Clouds

High-altitude night-shining clouds form and dissipate on a daily cycle revealed in this series of images made from data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA’s Aura satellite.


Maps by Robert Simmon, adapted from Polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) observed by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 28, 2011
Data acquired June 20, 2007

Source:
Aura > OMI