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NASA's MERRA-2 climate model predicts when the air up there is cold enough: On Nov. 11, 2024, the Arctic stratosphere is cooling but still too warm for Type II polar stratospheric clouds. | more data. Noctilucent Clouds. The northern season for NLCs is underway--but not for long.
Daily monitoring of solar flares, geomagnetic storms, Earth's aurora, and all forms of space weather.
Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics.
Summary: Sky watchers who saw it will never forget it: the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. The display began on Sunday morning, Nov. 18th, when Earth glided into a dust cloud shed by comet Tempel-Tuttle in 1766. Thousands of meteors per hour rained over North America and Hawaii.
Lunar Eclipse Gallery. Summary: The full moon glided through Earth's shadow on May 15/16, 2003. Sky watchers in the Americas, Europe, Africa and parts of Asia saw the moon redden and fade for nearly an hour.
Lunar Eclipse Gallery. Summary: The full moon glided through Earth's shadow on Nov 8/9, 2003, and turned a delightful shade of deep red. Get the full story from Science@NASA. Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers. From north shore of Long Island at Makamah Beach, Northport, NY.
Stockholm, Sweden. Jan. 4, 2011. #1. This widefield picture of the eclipse of the sun of this morning was taken at 8h41 UT at the maximum of 85%. I then composited 6 other pictures representing a total of 45 minutes. Before and after this central period, the sun was hidden behind clouds.
Summary: On Tuesday, January 9, 2001, the full Moon glided through's Earth shadow during the year's first and only total lunar eclipse. The total phase was visible from Africa, Europe, Asia and northern regions of Alaska.
back to spaceweather.com Summary : Sky watchers in Alaska, parts of Canada, most of Europe and Asia enjoyed a partial eclipse of the Sun on May 31st. [ full story ]
Summary: On August 16, 2008, the Moon moved through Earth's red shadow for an 81% partial lunar eclipse. The event was visible from parts of every continent except North America. [map] [details] Photographer, Location, Date. Larger images. Comments. William Chin, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Aug. 17, 2008.