World Clouds: Noctilucent Clouds

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Noctilucent Clouds

Posted On Monday, October 12, 2009 at a 10/12/2009 05:53:00 PM by ZonWu

Noctilucent clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena that are the "ragged-edge" of a much brighter and pervasive polar cloud layer called polar mesospheric clouds in the upper atmosphere, visible in a deep twilight. They are made of crystals of water ice. The name means roughly night shining in Latin. They are most commonly observed in the summer months at latitudes between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator. [...]

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