Sign up here to get more stories like this and weekday weather updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.Noctilucent clouds are extremely rare, very high clouds that are usually only ...

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare ...

Noctilucent, or "night-shining", clouds can be seen on Mars, just as they are on Earth. Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these high-altitude clouds on 17 May, 2019, using its navigation cameras.

Noctilucent clouds, often visible during Nautical twilight Colour and light begin to drain away through Nautical twilight, when the sun is between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon. In this low ...

Rick Kohnert, Scott Robertson, and Scott Knappmiller with the two rocket payloads for noctilucent cloud particles. Dusty plasma is plasma containing small particles in suspension. In industry, dust is ...

Rocket launches often create interesting aerial phenomena. Contrails from early morning or late evening launches can produce noctilucent clouds that appear to glow in the central Florida sky.

According to a post on SpaceWeather.com, this tear-drop shaped plume resulted from the rocket creating a thin, wispy, man-made cloud called a noctilucent cloud. These types of clouds, which hover ...

Together with colleagues from the Universities of Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig, the Karslruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, and the Helmholtz ...

Together they are analysing the data John collected from the 2011 noctilucent cloud season. John has also started a new project with the Natural Environment Research Council observing volcanic ash ...