Fundamentals of Astronautics
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Fundamentals of Astronautics

The 'Project PoSSUM' Suborbital Noctilucent Cloud Tomography Mission

Herausgeber: Reimuller, Jason David
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Project PoSSUM, an acronym for Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere, is the aeronomy program within the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, a 501(c)(3) non-profit international research program. PoSSUM employs commercial spacecraft, aircraft, and high-altitude balloons to study rare "space clouds" called noctilucent clouds. These elusive clouds can help scientists address critical questions about the Earth's climate, but they can only be seen from polar latitudes during a small window of time in the summer. Noctilucent clouds are of keen interest to climatologists b...