EULIAA IR lidar measures first Noctilucent Cloud (NLC)

Our first EULIAA lidar, operating at Andøya Space since more than half a year, caught something new:
With the now starting season, the lidar measured its first Noctilucent Cloud (NLC), also called Polar Mesospheric Cloud (PMC), in altitude of 80-90 km. As the name suggests, they usually only appear in polar regions but with the increasing climate change they can be seen in more southern latitudes. So, they can be a potential tracer for monitoring of the climate change if the understanding of their formation and the necessary conditions improves. Our EULIAA lidars can contribute with its data from otherwise inaccessible altitudes.