East Coasters -- wake up early for a light show in the sky, thanks to NASA

Set your alarms ATS,
the launch window opens up around 330

NASA really will be "cloud seeding" or upper atmosphere spraying?

I really hope this thread sticks to the science facts but this is ATS,
and really hope we can all share and imagine the possibilities...

This should be an amazing sight to behold!

Please be kind and enjoy!

Remember, we ALL make History every day.

Get your cameras ready too!

(CNN)If you live along the Eastern Seaboard and wake up early Sunday,
you could be treated to a colorful sky hours before sunrise.

Blue-green and red clouds could be visible in the predawn sky from New York to North Carolina,
thanks to a NASA rocket due to be launched from Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia.

The Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is now scheduled for launch between 4:26 a.m. and 4:41 a.m. ET. And in this case, the rocket launch isn't even the cool part.

Four to five minutes after launch, the rocket is expected to deploy 10 canisters about the size of soft drink cans, each containing a colored vapor that forms artificial, luminescent clouds.

The sounding rocket's payload is tested at the Wallops Flight Facility. The sounding rocket's payload is tested at the Wallops Flight Facility. The clouds, or vapor tracers, are formed "through the interaction of barium, strontium, and cupric-oxide," according to NASA.

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a reply to: iWontGiveUP

Chemtrailing.

First!

a reply to: iWontGiveUP

Hey whats up with these frigging pearly clouds that hang around in the same frigging spot every god damn evening, this is the first year i have seen these- and i have seen enough of them already, making me paranoid.

a reply to: solve

Please elaborate

Do you have images?

Is this nuculesr like bush said

Or just heavy metals that refract?

What exactly is this?

a reply to: iWontGiveUP

Like these, but they do not move around much,,, too little, i am not claiming that this is not a natural thing, but why this spring there are so many and so often... never before... and i watch the skies like a hawk. They are pretty but i do not feel comfortable with them hanging around..




-one more edit, my paranoia will get worse if the NASA clouds will look like these...

originally posted by: solve
a reply to: iWontGiveUP

Hey whats up with these frigging pearly clouds that hang around in the same frigging spot every god damn evening, this is the first year i have seen these- and i have seen enough of them already, making me paranoid.

Well, you know CERN started back up in April again, right?

a reply to: iWontGiveUP

They've been doing this for years. It's the only way to be able to study the extreme upper atmosphere and see how winds start up there.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: iWontGiveUP

They've been doing this for years. It's the only way to be able to study the extreme upper atmosphere and see how winds start up there.

Will this tell us something about how much of climate change is attributable to man, and how much is nature's doing?

I'm from the hippy generation......gonna be far out man

originally posted by: carewemust

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: iWontGiveUP

They've been doing this for years. It's the only way to be able to study the extreme upper atmosphere and see how winds start up there.

Will this tell us something about how much of climate change is attributable to man, and how much is nature's doing?

Cmon; it's fireworks with special chemicals

Fourth of July early

Let's just watch and take pictures

This is REAL

LETS DISCUSS THE ROCKET

originally posted by: iWontGiveUP

originally posted by: carewemust

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: iWontGiveUP

They've been doing this for years. It's the only way to be able to study the extreme upper atmosphere and see how winds start up there.

Will this tell us something about how much of climate change is attributable to man, and how much is nature's doing?

LETS DISCUSS THE ROCKET

Is it a reusable rocket that splashes down and is recovered by the Navy or Coast Guard?

hopefully we'll see some really cool photos of it.

a reply to: carewemust

I mistakenly replied to your reply instead of the previous thread care
Lo siento

Does anybody remember welcome wagon?

Why is this missle being shot over the e seaboard?

Can you whistle? The sound

a reply to: RoScoLaz5

That's all I want too!

Predawn, with the sun refracting too?

Should be some Pink Floyd

But this is 90 nm splashdown

Is this nothing to see?



Why here? Why now?

I understand the launch was recebtly delayed...
With that being said, when does NASA ever launch from VA?

Don't be blinded by the light my friends

Set your alarms and watch the NASA feeds

Ground cameras will be stationed at Wallops and in Duck, North Carolina, to view the vapor tracers. Clear skies are preferred, but not required, at both sites for the launch to occur.

The vapor tracers are formed through the interaction of barium, strontium and cupric-oxide. The tracers will be released at altitudes 96 to 124 miles high and pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast.

The vapor tracers could be visible from New York to North Carolina and westward to Charlottesville, Virginia. The total flight time for the mission is expected to be about 8 minutes.

The payload will land in the Atlantic Ocean about 90 miles from Wallops Island and will not be recovered.

They are shooting this "not" recovering rocket almost straight up???

From VA???

Can anyone remember something like this from NASA?

Get your cameras ready and tell your peeps too!

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a reply to: iWontGiveUP

Almost all their sounding rockets and even some satellite launches go from Wallops. They've launched from there multiple times in just the last few years. There were several threads about the launches.

In the early years, research at Wallops concentrated on obtaining aerodynamic data at transonic and low supersonic speeds. Between 1959 and 1961, Project Mercury[6] capsules were tested at Wallops in support of NASA's manned space flight program - the Mercury program - before astronauts were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Some of these tests using the Little Joe booster rocket were designed to flight-qualify components of the spacecraft, including the escape and recovery systems and some of the life support systems. Two rhesus monkeys, Sam and Miss Sam, were sent aloft as pioneers for astronauts; both were recovered safely.

The first payload launched into orbit from Wallops Island was Explorer IX, atop a Scout rocket, on February 15, 1961.[7]

On September 6, 2013, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was launched from Wallops, atop a Minotaur V rocket. This was the first time that an American lunar mission had been launched from anywhere but Florida.[8]

en.m.wikipedia.org...

They mostly launch sounding rockets, and non space related missions there, but it's not uncommon for rockets to go from there.

RE: the winds blowing I like to refere to it as the Monica Lewinsky effect.
a reply to: Zaphod58