NASA | ScienceCasts: Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds

A key ingredient of Earth’s strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft proves that “meteor smoke” is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds.

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    My favorite kind of cloud! I’ve wanted to study these for a while now!
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