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Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)

The AIM satellite mission is designed to explore Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), also called noctilucent clouds, to find out why they form and why they are changing.

Launch Date

April 2007

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The AIM satellite mission is designed to explore Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), also called noctilucent clouds, to find out why they form and why they are changing.

Related Publications

2022. "Decadal and Annual Variations in Meteoric Flux From Ulysses, Wind, and SOFIE Observations.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127 (10): e2022JA030749 [10.1029/2022ja030749] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries.", Reviews of Geophysics, 59 (2): e2020RG000714 [10.1029/2020rg000714] [Journal Article/Letter]