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AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) is a NASA Small
Explorer spacecraft launched April 25, 2007, into a high-inclination,
600-km altitude orbit for study of noctilucent clouds (also called Polar
Mesospheric Clouds) that occur at 80-90 km altitudes at high latitudes in
summer time and are thought to be formed by ice crystals.
AIM carried three instruments:
Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
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1. | ProjectScientist | spase://SMWG/Person/James.M.Russell.III |