Jellyfish in the sky was a high-flying rocket plume... Deep in the sea or high in the sky? A Russian Soyuz rocket produced this eerie jellyfish-like plume as it climbed up through the thin air of near space. Soon after launch on the morning of Tuesday 8 July, clear weather at the Russian space base in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, allowed photographer Anatoly Zak to capture the remarkable pattern on camera. According to Jonathan McDowell at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this is just one of many spectacular formations this kind of rocket can make as the core-stage rocket plume balloons out in the thin air high in the atmosphere. The cross at the top of the formation was made by the Soyuzs four boosters...Full story at: newscientist/article/dn25877-jellyfish-in-the-sky-was-a-highflying-rocket-plume.html#.U8Bidyj2NvY
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:30:00 +0000
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