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Besides supporting data consumers for service driven applications, (Space Weather effect forecasting), the facility will support studies of such topics as: ion outflow to the magnetosphere, auroral acceleration, small scale plasma physics, induced changes in the ionosphere, magnetic reconnection, sub-storms, ionosphere-neutral atmosphere coupling, mesospheric Physics, and
solar wind acceleration.
Tuesday night many Norwegians saw an odd light rotating in the night sky. Witnesses have described the event as beginning with a blueish light that seemed to rise right from behind a mountain before stopping and spinning. The blue light stayed while a blueish-greenish light seemed to come down from the larger blue light. It lasted only 10 or so minutes before disappearing completely. Some Norwegian Space Centre experts have said that they have never seen anything like this before, but guessed that it may have been caused by a Russian missile test. Although Russia officially denied that they had been testing missiles last night, there have been reports from military sources who confirmed that it was in fact a failed Russian missile test fire from a submarine.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Acharya
Cannot be done from a single location. There must be at least two.
Also, while the elevation (degrees above the horizon) of the event can be estimated, there is no indication of the azimuth (direction).
Originally posted by Acharya
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Acharya
Cannot be done from a single location. There must be at least two.
Also, while the elevation (degrees above the horizon) of the event can be estimated, there is no indication of the azimuth (direction).
Skjærvøy was the second location, 54 miles from Tromsø. Since one in addition knows the direction of the phenomenon as observed from Tromsø that should be sufficient data I should think.
Originally posted by curioustype
reply to post by Gromle
Ah - OK - that's indeed a v. high altitude/scale for civilian type beams - read a bit more about EISCAT - think that's the likely key now - still don't think it's any kind of rocket/trail - and actually, the lighting colours/effects/luminosity does resemble the northern lights displays better than the laser shows IMO, but it looks very man-made to me, fascinating.
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
Has nobody mentioned that this spiraling, pinwheel effect has been recorded before, over Russia? About the same duration, peculiar meandering light that sort of blossoms into a spiral and then winks out?
I've viewed practically all of the various NASA launch footage, of both manned and unmanned rockets, and I've seen a lot of peculiar atmospheric effects off of the plume — glowing clouds at night, pillars of light, rivers of color in the sky, concentric rainbows, et cetera — but I have never seen a rapid, dissipating spiral like this. However, the Russians have apparently demonstrated it at least twice.
I'm saying that we don't have it, whatever it is. And that's saying a lot.
Would any of these spiral rocket plume theorists care to post a photo of such a known sighting? Just for comparison.
No?
— Doc Velocity
[edit on 12/9/2009 by Doc Velocity]