Space Weather News for Dec 17, 2015
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STRANGE CLOUDS:  Sky watchers around the Arctic Circle are reporting an
outbreak of rare Polar Stratospheric Clouds--super-colorful clouds that
sometimes form in the ozone layer above the North Pole. Almost simultaneously,
NASA's AIM spacecraft is seeing electric-blue noctilucent clouds floating over
the South Pole. The simultaneous apparition of these strange clouds, poles
apart, may be a complete coincidence--or not.  Visit http://spaceweather.com
for more information.
 
GEMINIDS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE STRATOSPHERE:  When the Geminid meteor shower
peaked earlier this week, a snowstorm was in progress over the mountains of
central California.  Using a helium balloon, the students of Earth to Sky
Calculus launched a low-light camera to photograph the shower high above the
obscuring clouds. To see what Geminids look like from the stratosphere, please
visit http://spaceweather.com
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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