but the noctilucent clouds, composed of water-ice, hover some 50 miles above the planet's surface in a layer of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere. They were still largely a mystery to ...

Mysterious, wispy clouds glowing silvery-blue in color were spotted rippling over a West Texas town just before sunrise on Monday. The rare, cloud-like phenomena, known as noctilucent clouds (NLC), ...

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.

There are five major areas to our research. Noctilucent cloud in the summer polar mesosphere. The largest research project is the development and launch of rocket-borne probes to detect the dust in ...