Space Weather News for Dec 17, 2015   
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   STRANGE CLOUDS:  Sky watchers around the Arctic Circle are reporting an   
   outbreak of rare Polar Stratospheric Clouds--super-colorful clouds that   
   sometimes form in the ozone layer above the North Pole. Almost simultaneously,   
   NASA's AIM spacecraft is seeing electric-blue noctilucent clouds floating over   
   the South Pole. The simultaneous apparition of these strange clouds, poles   
   apart, may be a complete coincidence--or not.  Visit http://spaceweather.com   
   for more information.   
       
   GEMINIDS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE STRATOSPHERE:  When the Geminid meteor shower   
   peaked earlier this week, a snowstorm was in progress over the mountains of   
   central California.  Using a helium balloon, the students of Earth to Sky   
   Calculus launched a low-light camera to photograph the shower high above the   
   obscuring clouds. To see what Geminids look like from the stratosphere, please   
   visit http://spaceweather.com   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
   --- DB 3.99 + Windows 10   
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