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Electric blue night-shining clouds

Posted by in Today's Image | July 10, 2014

2014 has been a great year for noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds, seen at high latitudes only from about mid-May to August. Wondrous, if you can catch them!

Matt Robinson in Sunderland, U.K., saw this wonderful, electric-blue noctilucent clouds on July 7, 2014. They are sometimes called night-shining clouds.

Matt Robinson in Sunderland, U.K., saw a grand display of electric-blue noctilucent clouds on July 7, 2014. They are sometimes called night-shining clouds.

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