Stardust the fireball
This is very cool. (I'd suggest turning the sound down, it's very distracting.)
from spaceweather.com:
On Jan. 15th when the Stardust capsule ripped through Earth's atmosphere en route to a parachute landing in Utah, no one had a better view than scientists onboard NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory, and they recorded a spectacular video.
The glowing head of this man-made meteor reached temperatures exceeding 4000 degrees F. Inside the capsule, delicate samples of dust collected from distant Comet Wild 2 were safe, protected from blistering heat by the capsule's external heat shield.
Plus, in the middle of February, a lightning storm on Saturn.
On Feb. 13th, Ed Morana of Livermore, California, caught the ISS transiting the moon's Sea of Nectar.
from spaceweather.com:
On Jan. 15th when the Stardust capsule ripped through Earth's atmosphere en route to a parachute landing in Utah, no one had a better view than scientists onboard NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory, and they recorded a spectacular video.
The glowing head of this man-made meteor reached temperatures exceeding 4000 degrees F. Inside the capsule, delicate samples of dust collected from distant Comet Wild 2 were safe, protected from blistering heat by the capsule's external heat shield.
Plus, in the middle of February, a lightning storm on Saturn.
On Feb. 13th, Ed Morana of Livermore, California, caught the ISS transiting the moon's Sea of Nectar.
