1. MDSTA Conference
2009
Cris DeWolf
Heliophysics Educator Ambassador

2. What is AIM?

3. NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft was delivered into orbit from a Pegasus XL rocket. This rocket was fired from beneath a modified aircraft.
AIM's three scientific instruments will study polar mesospheric clouds located at the edge of space, 50 miles above the Earth's surface in the coldest part of the planet's atmosphere

4. The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) seeks to understand how Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) form, and how they change.
Noctilucent Clouds Over Germany
Credit & Copyright: Christoph Rollwagen
APOD

5. What are PMCs??

6. Noctilucent Clouds taken from 36,000 feet above the South of Nunivak Island, Alaska on June 20, Image credit: John Boardman; copyright, reprinted by permission.

7. Where are noctilucent clouds located??

8. PMCs!