Scientist proposes explanation for puzzling property of night-shining clouds at the edge of space
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 21:42
in Earth & Climate
An explanation for a strange property of noctilucent clouds--thin, wispy clouds hovering at the edge of space at 85 km altitude--has been proposed by an experimental plasma physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), possibly laying to rest a decades-long mystery. read more