Pre-dawn rocket launch creates colorful clouds over Florida
By FOX 13 News Staff
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Courtesy: National Weather Service of Melbourne, Fl
As the dawn light mixed with noctilucent and cirrus clouds, it created a rainbow palette in the sky, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
Noctilucent clouds are high-altitude wispy-like clouds formed from ice crystals within the mesosphere, which is a region of the Earth s atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere.
The clouds are seen on the horizon at mid-latitudes around dusk when solar illuminated from below, according to NASA.