MDSTA Conference
2009
Cris DeWolf
Heliophysics Educator Ambassador
What is AIM?
NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in
the Mesosphere spacecraft
was delivered into orbit from
a Pegasus XL rocket. This
rocket was fired from
beneath a modified aircraft.
AIM's
three
scientific
instruments will study polar
mesospheric clouds located
at the edge of space, 50
miles above the Earth's
surface in the coldest part of
the planet's atmosphere
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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
(AIM) seeks to understand how Polar Mesospheric
Clouds (PMCs) form, and how they change.
Noctilucent Clouds Over Germany
Credit & Copyright: Christoph Rollwagen
APOD
What are PMCs??
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Noctilucent Clouds taken from 36,000 feet above the South of Nunivak Island, Alaska on June 20, 2006. Image
credit: John Boardman; copyright, reprinted by permission.
Where are noctilucent clouds
located??
PMCs!
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