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NASA's AIM mission, which was launched in 2007 to study noctilucent clouds, has ended after 15 years due to a battery power failure. The spacecraft was only meant to operate for two years but provided data for multiple groundbreaking studies, including a recent 2018 study that found methane emissions are causing night-shining clouds to form more frequently.
NASA's AIM spacecraft, which was launched in 2007 to study noctilucent clouds, has gone silent after a battery power failure. The spacecraft had been sending a significant amount of data back to Earth until recently. The AIM team will monitor the spacecraft for another two weeks in case it reboots. The spacecraft's data has appeared in 379 peer-reviewed papers, including a recent study that found human-driven climate change is causing night-shining clouds to form more frequently.