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What Are The Streaks in the Clouds?
October 16, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory

The streaks in the clouds look like the contrails produced by aircraft but they are not. What do you think they are?


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Polar Mesospheric Clouds
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Bright Streaks on Mars Probably Caused by Landslide, Not Water
March 5, 2008 | National Geographic News
Researchers originally thought some newly-created bright streaks on the surface of Mars...

Noctilucent Clouds and the Tunguska Blast
July 6, 2009 | National Geographic
An article on the National Geographic website explores how noctilucent clouds (clouds...

Atmospheric Lead and Cloud Formation
June 14, 2009 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"By sampling clouds - and making their own - researchers have shown...

Low Altitude Clouds Over China
December 13, 2008 | Earth Observatory
"Low clouds hug the ground, seeping into the valleys between the peaks...

Earth Observatory Photos of 2008
January 2, 2009 | CNN
This is a photo gallery of some of the best images captured...

Grand Canyon Webcam
December 18, 2008 | Grand Canon WebCam
I just learned about the Grand Canyon webcam at Lee Alison's Arizona...

Photos: Asperatus Clouds
June 4, 2009 | BBC Today
The Cloud Appreciation Society believes that there should be a new classification...

Satellite Collision Over Siberia
February 13, 2009 | CNN
A Russian and an American satellite collided about 800 kilometers (500 miles)...

Photo of a Meteor – Through a Telescope
July 27, 2009 | Mike's Astro Photos
You can see what might be the world's first photograph of a...

Salty Volcanoes on Jupiter’s Moon Io
August 1, 2007 | Astrobiology Magazine
Jupiter's tiny moon, Io, is only 100 km larger in radius than...

Bering Sea Phytoplankton Bloom
October 13, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory
"Peacock-hued splashes of color brightened the Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast...

Severe Storms & Global Warming
December 29, 2008 | NASA / JPL
"The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type...

Soufriere Hills Volcano Eruption Plume
January 7, 2009 | Earth Observatory
"In early 2009, ash and steam from the Soufriere Hills Volcano on...

Two Storms: Felicia & Enrique
August 6, 2009 | Earth Observatory
It is not very often that you can see two large storms...

Lightning Affected by Sun’s Rotation?
November 18, 2009 | Tel Aviv University
It appears that lightning patterns on Earth may fluctuate in sync with...

Stormy Weather on Titan
August 21, 2009 | National Science Foundation
Astronomers have captured images of some storm clouds hovering near the equator...

Hurricane Jimena Satellite Image
September 1, 2009 | Earth Observatory
Earth Observatory has a satellite image of Hurricane Jimena as it was...

Mississippi Thunderstorm Mapping
March 30, 2009 | Earth Observatory
"Severe thunderstorms swept through the southeastern United States on March 26, 2009....

Redoubt Thermal Infrared Satellite Images
March 25, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory
The large eruptions at Redoubt Volcano all occurred in darkness, making photo-like...

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