{"id":332893,"date":"2010-02-17T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:00:18","slug":"rocket-launch-blows-away-the-sky-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332893","title":{"rendered":"Rocket launch blows away the sky | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perched on top of an Atlas V rocket, on February 11 the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/a> launched into space. About a minute after leaving the Earth, the rocket did two things: it passed the speed of sound, and screamed past a <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2005\/03\/18\/halo-how-ya-doin\/\">sundog<\/a>, a rainbow-colored optical effect in the sky caused by ice crystals.<\/p>\n<p>And when it did, well, it was incredible. What&#8217;s below <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw\">is just about the coolest video I have ever seen<\/a>. And I mean that seriously. Click the &#8220;720&#8221; button and pay close attention at the 1:50 mark. You won&#8217;t miss it, the crowd in the audio will alert you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SsDEfu8s1Lw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Wow! I&#8217;m quite sure the footage shown here is legit and not a hoax. Several people I know said they saw the same thing, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/noisyastronomer.com\/2010\/02\/11\/sdo-is-go\/\">and there are photos of it as well<\/a>. Those ripples were caused by the shockwave of the rocket going through the cloud, which quickly dispersed. Since the cloud had ice crystals in it, <em>the sundog got literally blown away<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I love the digital revolution. There are so many video cameras out there that stuff no one would&#8217;ve believed before are becoming more and more common. Bright meteor fireballs, rocket launches like this, clear footage of flying saucers&#8230; oh, wait. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, awesome. If you ever get a chance to watch a rocket launch,<em> take it<\/em>. You never know what you might see!<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the nosecone to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jhumbug\/status\/9248355104\">jhumbug on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ctGpruUiptHKvoEMJ2IvYHiaTBU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ctGpruUiptHKvoEMJ2IvYHiaTBU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ctGpruUiptHKvoEMJ2IvYHiaTBU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ctGpruUiptHKvoEMJ2IvYHiaTBU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/Q6Q6YI4XFIs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Gu70bBSDg5A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perched on top of an Atlas V rocket, on February 11 the Solar Dynamics Observatory launched into space. About a minute after leaving the Earth, the rocket did two things: it passed the speed of sound, and screamed past a sundog, a rainbow-colored optical effect in the sky caused by ice crystals. And when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}