NASA Has Detected Hundreds of Unexpected Flashes Reflecting Off Our Planet
Hundreds of large flashes have been filmed reflecting off our planet, and they’ve helped NASA solve a mystery that stumped the likes of Carl Sagan more than two decades ago.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
NASA Has Detected Hundreds of Unexpected Flashes Reflecting Off Our PlanetHundreds of large flashes have been filmed reflecting off our planet, and they’ve helped NASA solve a mystery that stumped the likes of Carl Sagan more than two decades ago.
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Interesting. Our atmosphere is more sparkly than we thought.
Tau.Neutrino said:
NASA Has Detected Hundreds of Unexpected Flashes Reflecting Off Our PlanetHundreds of large flashes have been filmed reflecting off our planet, and they’ve helped NASA solve a mystery that stumped the likes of Carl Sagan more than two decades ago.
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Reads like a detective story.
“Back in 1993, astronomer Carl Sagan noticed strange flashes of light showing up in images of Earth taken by the Galileo spacecraft”.
“specular reflection in ocean”
“All coming from the land.”
“When they modelled the direction of sunlight reflecting off hypothetical ice crystals that happened to be floating in the air on a horizontal angle, the numbers matched perfectly to what was in the EPIC and Galileo images.”
I did not see that coming.
“5 to 8 km above the surface, where cirrus clouds full of ice crystals hang”.