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12.10.2007
NASA/GSFC/HU
Release: 07-75
NASA Satellite Reveals Unprecedented View of Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds

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06.28.07
NASA/GSFC/HU
Release: 07-145
NASA Satellite Captures First View of "Night-Shining" Clouds

04.24.07
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Set to Launch Company-Built AIM Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket

04.23.07
University of Colorado
Media Invited To Televised NASA Launch At CU-Boulder April 25

04.17.07
MEDIA ADVISORY: 14-07
NASA Sets Press and Media Events for AIM Launch

04.13.07
STATUS REPORT: ELV-041307
Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

04.11.07
NASA RELEASE: 07-84
NASA Aims to Clear Up Mystery of Elusive Clouds at Edge Of Space

04.11.07
Hampton University Press Release #67
HU/NASA Launches AIM Satellite

03.10.07
University of Colorado Press Release
University of Colorado instruments to launch on NASA cloud mission April 25

03.12.07
NASA RELEASE: 07-62
Spacecraft to Study Clouds at Edge of Space Arrives at Vandenberg

05.06.04
NASA RELEASE: 04-151
Two New Missions To Solve Mysteries Of Volatile Upper Atmosphere
05.05.04
Hampton University Press Release
NASA Confirms HU’S $101M AIM Satellite Flight Misson
08.06.03
Orbital Sciences Corp. Press Release
Orbital Selected for $25 Million Scientific Satellite Contract
07.17.02
NASA Earth Observatory Media Alert
Scientists to Study Changes in Highest Clouds via Satellite
07.03.02
University of Colorado Press Release
CU Selected To Build Instruments, Control Cloud-Monitoring NASA Satellite From Boulder Campus
The AIM mission news archives list past press release articles from NASA and partner institutions with content focusing on the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Satellite Mission.
04.21.08
The AIM team has been selected to receive a NASA’s Group Achievement Award “For outstanding achievement in developing and launching the Small Explorer mission to study the phenomena of polar mesospheric clouds.”  Dr. Russell, the principal investigator, will accept the award on behalf of the team May 8th during the 2008 Agency Honor Awards Ceremony at NASA Headquarters.

04.14-16.08
The AIM Science team met April 14-16 at Hampton University. For more, read the Status Report for 04.18.08.

03.13.08
SpaceRef.com
Statement of Alan Stern Before the House Science and Technology Committee Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics 13 March 2008
"The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, launched in 2007 is providing revolutionary data on changes in noctilucent clouds that appear to be related to global change."

03.01.08
CBS Headline News
Glow-In-The-Dark Clouds?
They were first seen more than a century ago, clouds that seem to glow in the dark. Now they're showing up more and more often, and some are trying to find out why. Byron Pitts reports.

02.01.08
James M. Russell III, AIM's PI, is honored with Virginia's Outstanding Scientist Award 2008

01.17.08
Why? Tell Me Why!: Night Shining Clouds
Discovery Channel News Video
Kasey-Dee Gardner
YouTube Posting

01.03.08
All Headline News- USA
NASA Satellite Finds Night Clouds Getting Brighter, Bigger

01.03.08
The Associated Press
Data Shed New Light on Night Clouds

12.30.07
Space Ref (press release) - USA
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 December 2007

12.27.07
BlackEngineer.com - Baltimore,MD,USA
Hampton's AIM Satellite Mission Changes View of Clouds

12.17.07
Chemical & Engineering News - USA
Night-Shining Clouds

12.11.07
Times Online/Nico Hines
Nasa images show climate change from space

12.11.07
ABC Science Online - Australia
Irene Klotz

Global warming making more ice clouds

12.11.07
BBC News - UK
Johnathan Amos
Spacecraft chases highest clouds

12.11.07
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Andrea Thompson
Satellite Sheds Light on Brightest Clouds

12.11.07
National Geographic News
Christine Dell'Amore
Mysterious Clouds More Common Due to Climate Change?

12.11.07
Nature News / Journal of Nature
Alexandra Witze
Enigmatic clouds illuminated: Satellite data shed light on twilight skies.

12.11.07
Thaindian News
“Night shining” clouds above Polar Regions may be partly due to global warming

12.10.07
Discovery Channel News
Irene Klotz
Warming Creates More Night Shining Clouds

9.18.07
Hampton University is the leading HBCU in Science Research Initiatives - AIM is the sixth NASA mission led by HU researchers.
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7.05.07
News in Brief / Journal of Nature
vol. 448
AIM Satellite Snaps Night-Shining Clouds

6.28.07
NASA Satellite Captures First View of 'Night-Shining Clouds'
04.25.07
Spaceflight Now/Justin Ray
> Satellite to unveil secrets of Earth's highest clouds
04.24.07
Dave Mosher, LiveScience Staff Writer
Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic
04.24.07
New York Times
First Mission to Explore Those Wisps in the Night Sky
04.23.07
Nature.com
Satellite to probe mysterious glowing clouds
04.20.07
Voice of America
NASA Exploring Polar Ice Clouds
04.17.07
SpaceRef.com
NASA Sets Press and Media Events for AIM Launch
04.16.07
Epoch Times
NASA Cloud Mission AIMs High

04.14.07
CBS Channel 4 Denver, Colorado
NASA,CU Partner to Study Clouds

04.13.07
Happy News.com
NASA Aims to Clear up Mystery of Elusive Clouds at Edge of Space
04.13.07
SatNews.com
Hampton U, NASA to Explore Space Ice Clouds
04.13.07
ITWire.com
Clouds at the Edge of Space to be Studied by NASA's AIM Satellite
04.12.07
MSNBC
Spacecraft will Track Earth's Highest Clouds

04.12.07
Salt Lake Tribune, Utah
USU Joins NASA Cloud Study

04.12.07
Virginian-Pilot
Hampton University Rocket Project to Launch April 25
04.12.07
New Scientist.com
Satellite to study source of 'night shining' clouds

04.12.07
InTheNews.co.uk
NASA to Investigate 'Ice Clouds'

04.11.07
The Post Chronicle
NASA Plans Study of Space Clouds

04.11.07
Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL-TV
Utah Technology to help NASA Spacecraft Collect Data

04.11.07
Space.com
NASA Readies Satellite to Scan Earth's Highest Clouds

05.26.06
BBC News
Mission to Target Highest Clouds
01.30.05
NASA Solar System Exploration News
NASA Selects Small Explorer Mission

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Strange Clouds
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have been observing electric blue "noctilucent" clouds from Earth-orbit.
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A view of noctilucent clouds from the International Space Station.

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