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English: Images captured by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite. These images show OMI measurements of polar mesospheric clouds. The clouds, detectable because they are the only things that reflect light in this part of the atmosphere, are shown in white and pink. The Aura satellite travels in a polar orbit, circling from south to north as the Earth turns beneath it. As a result, the satellite gets several opportunities to image the poles every day. This series of images shows the clouds over six consecutive orbits between 7:16 and 15:52 Universal Time. Throughout the day, a wide area of polar mesospheric clouds developed over northern Greenland and Canada, peaking around 10:30 UTC (the third orbit). |
| Date | Taken on 10 July 2007 |
| Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
| Author | Robert Simmon |
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