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[NASA] Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds 

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Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds 

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Noctilucent Clouds observed from Bozeman, MT on 16 July 2009 at 4:29 MDT. The
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needs more photos like this one to diagnose changes in our atmosphere!
Photo credit: Dr. Joseph A Shaw

Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically occur near the north and south poles but are increasingly being reported at mid- and low latitudes. Observing them helps scientists better understand how human activities may affect our atmosphere.

Now, the

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is asking you to report your own observations of noctilucent clouds and upload your own photographs. Combined with satellite data and model simulations, your data can help us figure out why these noctilucent clouds are suddenly appearing at mid-low latitudes, where temperatures are usually too warm for them to form.

 “I find these clouds fascinating and can’t wait to see the amazing pictures,” said project lead Dr. Chihoko Cullens from the University of Colorado, Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. 

Did you see or photograph any night-shining clouds?

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. Later, the science team will transfer them to a site on the
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where you or other volunteers can help examine them and identify wave structures in the cloud images.

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