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Electric Blue NLCs Over Busy Road At Night

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Taken after midnight on a Summer's night during the peak of the 2009 NLC season which produced the finest displays in decades due to solar minimum. These Noctilucent Clouds or NLCs are visible on Summer nights glowing against the stars with eerie colours and sporting remarkable herringbone and band structures. NLCs are 80km high within the Mesosphere and are very important to atmospheric scientists. The consensus is that NLCs are composed of meteoritic material (mainly from comets) which become encased in ice crystals then reflecting sunlight.

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