NASA is going to make pretty Noctilucent Clouds
Public Release but a Little Misdirection
The Innocent Launch from NASA
Saturday Night Light Show
Sept 20th, 2009

Credit: John A. Blackwell/Space Weather
The phones started ringing around 7:30 pm EDT on Saturday night, Sept. 19th. All along the US Atlantic seaboard, police stations and news desks received reports of strange lights in the sky. John A. Blackwell of Exeter, New Hampshire, snapped this picture of the phenomenon:
"It was an impressive display," says Blackwell. "To the naked eye, it was visible for about a minute."
It looks like a passing comet or a giant, luminous amoeba. But this was pure rocket science. The cloud was created by a Black Brant XII sounding rocket launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket released a cloud of electrically-charged aerosols near the top of Earth's atmosphere to investigate the formation of noctilucent clouds or "NLCs." Mysterious NLCs form naturally around Earth's poles during the months of northern summer. On this September evening, researchers decided to see if they could create an artificial NLC at mid-latitudes; it seems to have worked.
Ground-based cameras and radars along the Atlantic coast monitored the experiment while the STPSat-1 satellite watched from Earth orbit. Principal investigators at the Naval Research Lab hope the data will reveal much about the microphysics of noctilucent clouds and the possible role of rockets in creating them.
SOURCE: Space Weather
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Credit: Neil Winston/Space Weather
The rocket launched at around 7:30 pm (Eastern Time) from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility. It was a four stage rocket and you could see each stage ignite one after another. About four minutes after the launch, it released it's charged aerosol payload to create artificial noctilucent clouds. The release formed an impressive, bright cone shaped cloud. Photo Details: Canon EOS Rebel XSi, 200 ASA, 30s Exposure
SOURCE: Space Weather
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Related Links
ATS Threads on the Noctilucent Clouds
NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday
www.abovetopsecret.com...
NASA Experiment May Have Caused Strange Light That Was Seen In The Sky
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket - NASA 09/10/09
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Eerie Cloud Created by NASA Rocket Experiment - Space.com 20 September 2009
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NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday - LiveScience Sep 14, 2009
www.livescience.com...
SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHT SHOW - spaceweather.com
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These will be good for the next launch...
Viewing Opportunities: Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket
www.spaceref.com...
Wallops Island Launch Webcast
www.rumormillnews.com...
The launch will be web cast, beginning one hour before the opening of the launch window
sites.wff.nasa.gov...
Okay so that is the Public Story... Pretty Coulds you can Oooo and Ahhhhh over but nothing to see here folks, you can go home now...
And by reading the posts in the two ATS threads it has worked well DESPITE the fact that several people including Phage pointed to the following documents... he even got several stars for saying "Nothing going on - no big deal" (paraphrased
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