CALIPSO spies polar stratospheric clouds
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 13:31
in Astronomy & Space
NASAs Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite was in the right place at the right time in early 2011. On January 4, while flying past the east coast of Greenland, CALIPSO caught a top-down glimpse of an unusual atmospheric phenomenonpolar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds.