Wow! The Most Amazing Image in Science

[Skywizard]

http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/060/699/original/noctilucent-clouds-south-pole.jpg?1387821696


I ran across this photo on source below with no explaination or discription except by laying your mouse on the photo it says "clouds near space". Is it the North or South Pole? If so what the hell is that HOLE in the center?

Anyone have any other ideas (other than hollow earth)?


Source: http://www.livescience.com/42221-wow-the-most-amazing-images-in-science-this-week.html


confused... :noidea:
skywizard

[ghostrider]

We may never know, the ptb and the NSA never allow information out without some sort of filter ... could it be the magnetic wave at the top of earth doesn't allow digital information to be reconstructed properly ???

[fourty-two]

South Pole. The land outline is Antarctica. Wind patterns could produce a hole.

[Hervé]

The hole is due the satellite not sweeping that area, hence black as seen on the edges. For some reasons due to synchronization with earth's rotation, satellites paths have to be slightly off a true polar orbit.

The "clouds" are so-called "noctilucent" clouds.

[Richard S.]

Found this link to the source:

http://www.livescience.com/42182-night-shining-clouds-south-pole.html

[MorningSong]

spaceweather.com has this on their site.... yes, it shows the noctilucent clouds..


Spaceweather.com posts daily satellite images of noctilucent clouds (NLCs), which hover over Earth's poles at the edge of space. The data come from NASA's AIM spacecraft. The north polar "daisy" pictured below is a composite of near-realtime images from AIM assembled by researchers at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
Noctilucent Clouds

http://spaceweather.com/DAISY_PICS/daisy_thumb.gif
Switch view: Europe, USA, Asia, Polar
Updated at: 12-28-2013 10:55:02

[bogeyman]

Aurora borealis?