NASA | Noctilucent Clouds

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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of Earth's unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the "edge of space." Located near the top of the Earth's mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary. They are being seen at lower latitudes than ever before and have been growing brighter and more frequent, leading some scientists to suggest that this recent increase may be the direct result of human-induced climate change. The mission is led by Dr. James Russell of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University.

Music by The Chromatics:
http://www.thechromatics.com/

For more info:
http://www.nasa.gov/aim/
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/

Category:

Science & Technology

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• NASA
• Goddard
• Space
• Flight
• Center
• TV
• capella
• acapella
• AIM
• satellite
• earth
• science
• Hampton
• Noctilucent
• Clouds
• Chromatics

[lynchrw]

I wonder how much that video caost. Tax dollars at work?

[NASAexplorer]

The singers volunteered their time and all of the visuals used previously existed. Because this was produced and edited by our in-house team, the only cost was an in-kind 2 days worth of editing work, or about $350 for an editor's time. That's .0009 cents per YouTube view, not including the hits it has received on other sites. Was it worth the money? We think so. But we'll let you decide.....

[UglyMannheim]

This video is so much nicer with the volume shut off. ;)

[DarthPickley]

I am going to use this song to do a presentation at school.

We were supposed to research a type of cloud, and this song popped into my head and he said if we sang a song we would get an A automatically. Because of the catchy song, right then I remembered most of the details about noctilucent clouds. (noctilucent = night + glow = glowing at night)

[DarthPickley]

@lynchrw from a tax payer standpoint? this is a capella. you just sing. How about from a tax payer standpoint what is the point of letting the President eat more fancy food than you eat? Does life have any meaning? Is it all about money? Really? If it was one of their other songs, like the one about fast food, you wouldn't be complaining about taxpayer dollars even though it comes from the same place money-wise. It is on the NASA channel because the song is relevant to a NASA mission.

[DarthPickley]

@clapage This is the Chromatics. They are an A Capella singing group made up mostly of NASA Goddard workers. Astro-Cappella is a part where they write songs about their jobs, because their jobs are pretty cool because it is about space.

[DarthPickley]

so many dumb non-scientific conspiracy theorists here in the comments. Saying that it is "chemtrail" is ignorant of the facts. (Chemtrail is a conspiracy theory based on trails made by high-altitude airplanes. They say govt. is secretly putting chemicals in the air. They say this because they can't trust anyone. I see no reason why you should trust them because they seem to believe that everyone else lies.)

It is so idiotic. also these clouds were seen before HAARP or airplanes came about

[Uedrese1]

Dis is CHEMTRAIL...!

You really Mad.

[Uedrese1]

...me no believe ...we no all sleepin...!

[george7378]

Saw some more last night - really beautiful! I stayed up all night watching them! I was watching from the UK.

[Destructor111]

Just saw this phenomenon last night, over Ireland, from 1:30am to 4am.

It was accompanied by some odd sounds in my area, like high-pitch air raid sirens, which made all the dogs in the vicinity howl. More than likely completely unrelated, but not knowing what NLCs were, I was unnerved.

Then I found this ... song... very informative... very unusual... I'm unnerved for a different reason now :p Good Job, NASA!