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Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds

In the northern hemisphere, night-shining clouds seem to be forming earlier and spreading farther each year, as they did in 2013.


Images credit LASP/University of Colorado. Animation by Robert Simmon, using data from LASP/University of Colorado. Video by Science@NASA. Caption by Tony Phillips, Science@NASA, and Mike Carlowicz, NASA Earth Observatory.

Published June 25, 2013
Data acquired May 22, 2012 - June 13, 2013

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