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ELECTRIC-BLUE CLOUDS CIRCLING ANTARCTICA (noctilucent cloud season again!)
spaceweather.com ^

Posted on 01/04/2018 3:03:15 PM PST by ransomnote

ELECTRIC-BLUE CLOUDS CIRCLING ANTARCTICA: NASA's AIM spacecraft is monitoring a vast ring of electric-blue clouds circling high above Antarctica. These are noctilucent clouds (NLCs), made of ice crystals frosting specks of "meteor smoke" in the mesosphere 83 km above the frozen continent.

This is the season for southern noctilucent clouds. Every year around this time, summertime water vapor billows up into the high atmosphere over Antarctica, providing moisture needed to form icy clouds at the edge of space. Sunlight shining through the high clouds produces an electric-blue glow, which AIM can observe from Earth orbit. "The current season began on Nov. 19th," says Cora Randall, a member of the AIM science team at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. "Compared to previous years of AIM data, this season seems to be fairly average, but of course one never knows what surprises lie ahead, particularly since the southern hemisphere seasons are so variable.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: clouds; electricblueclouds; iceclouds; meteorsmoke; nasa; nlc; noctilucent
Alright everyone, it's noctilucent cloud season again. Time to go up to the attic and get out the decorations.

More at the link.

I note the NASA article also uses that shop-worn term "meteor smoke."

1 posted on 01/04/2018 3:03:15 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: admin

Gah! I forgot to post date and author and then looking at the website, there’s no date given nor is there a byline. But since it’s on today’s webpage then may I request you correct my error and add published date 1/4/2018? Thank ye!


2 posted on 01/04/2018 3:05:02 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
Trump fixed Global Warming, must he do everything????


3 posted on 01/04/2018 3:08:53 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: ransomnote

Electric Blue Clouds?

I think I saw them at the Filmore East back in 1968...


4 posted on 01/04/2018 3:16:14 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: C210N

WINNING!


5 posted on 01/04/2018 3:26:22 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

6 posted on 01/04/2018 3:28:25 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just dkill you.)
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Trippy! Thank you. Do you have to do anything different to post an animated gif versus a static image?


7 posted on 01/04/2018 3:31:33 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
Electric Blue by, oddly enough, Icehouse...
8 posted on 01/04/2018 3:31:48 PM PST by moovova
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9 posted on 01/04/2018 3:39:28 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just dkill you.)
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10 posted on 01/04/2018 3:46:42 PM PST by Oratam
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To: ransomnote

No. You use the same html for a gif as you would a jpg.


11 posted on 01/04/2018 4:40:19 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just dkill you.)
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To: moovova

Cassandra Delaney was smokin’ hot. And certified nuts.


12 posted on 01/04/2018 4:41:23 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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It’s sister?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbNeOEG0GY


13 posted on 01/04/2018 4:43:20 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Add that to the LONG list of President Trump’s “First Year Accomplishments List.”


14 posted on 01/04/2018 5:37:17 PM PST by txrefugee
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