Rocket waves captured on video
Amateur videos captured visible rings of rippling shock waves from a rocket launch in Florida last week, when completely unexpected, the Solar Dynamics Observatory blasted past a ’sundog’ caused by suspended ice particles in the air.
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Editor of Plane Talking @PlaneTalking
Ben Sandilands has reported and analysed the mechanical mobility of humanity since late 1960 - the end of the age of great scheduled ocean liners and coastal steamers and the start of the jet age. He’s worked in newspapers, radio and TV in a wide range of roles as a journalist at home and abroad for 56 years, the last 18 freelance.