CALIPSO Spies Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Also known as nacreous clouds, they play an important role in the depletion of stratospheric ozone.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using CALIPSO data provided by the Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center, with meteorological analyses by Andreas Dörnbrack, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Caption by Kristyn Ecochard and Michael Carlowicz.

Published February 9, 2011
Data acquired January 4, 2011

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