On a tranquil summer evening, just as the sun dips below the horizon and darkness begins to settle, an ethereal spectacle ...

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.

Rocket launches often create interesting aerial phenomena. Contrails from early morning or late evening launches can produce noctilucent clouds that appear to glow in the central Florida sky.

Noctilucent clouds, often visible during Nautical twilight Colour and light begin to drain away through Nautical twilight, when the sun is between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon. In this low ...

Rick Kohnert, Scott Robertson, and Scott Knappmiller with the two rocket payloads for noctilucent cloud particles. Dusty plasma is plasma containing small particles in suspension. In industry, dust is ...

According to a post on SpaceWeather.com, this tear-drop shaped plume resulted from the rocket creating a thin, wispy, man-made cloud called a noctilucent cloud. These types of clouds, which hover ...