NASA-DLR Balloon Mission Chases Silvery-White Ice Clouds
September 21, 2018
September 21, 2018
KOLN, Germany, Sept. 21 -- German Aerospace Center, a national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research, issued the following news release:
A thin layer of silvery-white ice clouds exists on the edge of our atmosphere. Known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), they form at 83 kilometres above the poles of our Earth during summer. A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission carrying an instrument developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsche . . .
A thin layer of silvery-white ice clouds exists on the edge of our atmosphere. Known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), they form at 83 kilometres above the poles of our Earth during summer. A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission carrying an instrument developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsche . . .