Mysterious Noctilucent Clouds as seen from the ISS

by Agis F.

This image was taken from the ISS as it passed over the Tibetan Plateau, on June 13, 2012, when polar mesospheric clouds were also visible to aircraft flying over Canada. Image credit: NASA, Expedition 31 crew, ISS

Polar mesospheric clouds are at the peak of their visibility, in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, during their respective late spring and early summer seasons.

In addition to the still image above, the ISS crew took this time-lapse image sequence of polar mesospheric clouds several days earlier (June 5) while passing over western Asia. It is first such sequence of images of the phenomena taken from orbit.

via earthobservatory

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A. F. Pass

Jun 30 2012

My wife and I were flying to Scotland on an overnight flight June 14. As we were just south of Greenland flying at 37,000 feet, I happen to look out the window and noted the noctilucent cloud formation to the north. I wish I had taken a photograph… Beautiful and eerie at the same time.

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- wordlesstech team
  
  Jun 30 2012
  
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