Lufthansa-Pilot K.T. schildert der CENAP-UFO-Meldestelle ein Himmelsphänomen welcher er beim Flug über Bukarest in der Nacht 3.40 UTC in nördlicher Richtung sah, als er mit Kurs 285° Richtung Deutschland flog. Er konnte "ein hellen Lichtstreifen (bei ausgestreckten Arm 10-15cm) mit drei rötlichen Punkten welche vergingen" sehen und über Alaska/Nord-Kanada vermutete. Seine erste Anfrage machte er bei ESA da er auch ein Raketenstart vermutete, dort aber ein Negativ-Bescheid bekam und danach den Hinweis sich an die CENAP-UFO-Meldestelle in Mannheim zu wenden.
Skizze: Lufthansa-Flug A: Bukarest/Rumänien
Flug-Route von Lufthansa DLH621 bei Beobachtungszeitpunkt über Rumänien
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CENAP-Recherche folgte nach Schilderung der Beobachtung der Spur von Raketenstart mit Barium-Effekt. Aber war zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine solche wissenschaftliche Untersuchung in der Atmosphäre überhaupt gegeben?
Und tatsächlich fanden wir die Ursache für die Beobachtung des Lufthansa-Piloten, derzeit finden genau über der Grönland-See umfangreiche Atmosphären-Forschungen mit Raketen statt, welche zu Sonnen-Wind-Studien eingesetzt werden.
Nachfolgend Bildmaterialien und Informationen von NASA-Quellen zu den Experimenten im hohen Norden:
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Scientists Study the Interaction of the Solar Wind and Earth’s Atmosphere From Norway / Missions begins November 19. It ends December 3 for CAPER and December 7 for C-REX.CAPER
Northern Norway in December? It may not be your ideal spot to visit, but for NASA sounding rocket teams and university scientists, this is the ideal place to conduct experiments to increase the understanding of the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s upper atmosphere.
The launch window opens November 19 at the Andoya Rocket Range for the Cusp Alfven and Plasma Electrodynamics Rocket (CAPER) and the Cusp-Region Experiment (C-REX) that will conduct studies of activities in the Earth’s cusp, magnetic field features in the magnetosphere associated with regions through which plasma from the sun can have direct access to the upper atmosphere.
CAPER will launch on a four-stage Talos-Terrier-Oriole-Nihka (Oriole IV) to a projected altitude of 328 miles. The launch is scheduled to occur between 8 a.m. and noon, local time (2 a.m. to 6 a.m. EST).
“This experiment will measure waves and particles in several frequency ranges, from Hz to MHz, with sufficient resolution to determine the phase relation between them, and hence the nature of their interaction including direction of energy flow,” said Dr. James LaBelle, CAPER principal investigator from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
“By making the most advanced measurements of this type ever made in the cusp, we expect to answer the question of whether wave-particle interactions there are identical to those in other space plasma environments or have their own special characteristics due to unique aspects of the particle distribution functions in the cusp,” LaBelle said.
The C-REX mission will launch on a four-stage Talos-Terrier-Brant-Nihka (Black Brant XII) to a projected altitude of 328 miles. The launch window is the same as for CAPER.
The mission requires the deployment of 24 individual canister sub-payloads. Each canister, containing barium and/or strontium, will be propelled away from the main payload by small rocket motors and produce colorful vapor clouds between the altitude of 93 and 248 miles over the Greenland Sea west of Svalbard, Norway.
Barium produces a cloud with a mixture of blue-green colors. Strontium in combination with neutral barium creates a bluish-purple color cloud. Tracking the strontium/barium drifts will show neutral winds, whereas the barium drift will show ion velocities. The vapor tracers do not pose a risk to health or the environment.
Ground–based cameras and those on a NASA King Air B-200 plane will track the tracers.
Mark Conde, C-REX principal investigator from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said, “The images will be used to triangulate the three-dimensional position and motion of each cloud, in order to measure winds and electric fields in the thermospheric region that is exposed to Earth's geomagnetic cusp.”“For reasons that are currently not understood, there is a permanent density increase in this part of Earth's thermosphere, which is expected to cause small but important and currently unpredictable perturbations to the orbits of spacecraft flying through it. By measuring winds and ion motion at multiple locations inside the density enhancement, we hope to understand the flows that are responsible for creating and sustaining it,” Conde said.The launch window for both missions begins November 19. It ends December 3 for CAPER and December 7 for C-REX.CAPER is supported by researchers from Dartmouth College; the University of Iowa, Iowa City; and the University of Oslo, Norway. C-REX is supported by researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; and Clemson University, South Carolina; as well as various international partners.
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The Cusp Alfven and Plasma Electrodynamics Rocket (CAPER) mission will investigate the complex interactions between planetary magnetospheres and their underlying ionospheres. These interactions are most easily studied at high magnetic latitudes of the Earth, where magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling gives rise to the aurora via at least two separate electron acceleration processes of broad significance to space plasma physics: acceleration in electrostatic electric fields and in time-varying electromagnetic fields associated with Alfvén waves. The CAPER mission will make significant advances in understanding of dayside MI coupling by building on the small number of previous rocket experiments in the cusp.
The dayside high-latitude polar cusp is a unique environment where direct access of solar wind particles to low altitudes leads to similar particle precipitation and acceleration processes as on the nightside, but dominated by a rather different set of magnetospheric processes, such as dayside reconnection and interactions with interplanetary pressure pulses and discontinuities. In particular, direct measurements of Alfvén waves associated with electron acceleration, via their electric and magnetic fields, has not been reported in the cusp (as opposed to the nightside), and the detailed interaction of the electron beam with Langmuir wave electric fields, as well as statistics of the resulting complex structure in the fields, has not been directly measured in the cusp (as opposed to the nightside).
By including the same key instruments flown on complementary missions in the nightside aurora, CAPER will establish the role and nature of Alfvén wave acceleration in the cusp and discover the causes of the observed differences in the Langmuir waves in the cusp versus the nightside. CAPER also includes the first ever wave-particle correlator measurements in the cusp. The results affect a range of NASA programs in geospace, planetary, heliospheric and astrophysical sciences and are pertinent to multiple objectives of NASA’s Heliophysics research program.
To achieve the science a single instrumented payload will be launched to 800 km or higher into cusp aurora from the Andoya Rocket Range, located in Norway. Apogee of 800 km is required to assure significant flight time in the altitude range where auroral Langmuir waves are excited and to have the best chance to penetrate the ionospheric Alfvén resonator, a region where Alfvén waves are trapped along the magnetic field and can lead to structured aurora via wave-particle interactions.
Quelle: NASA
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Und So wirken die Atmosphären-Experimente über der Grönland-See:
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"UFO-Alarm" über Norwegen...
...irrer C-REX-Sounding-Raketen-Barium-Effekt, der ohne Frage für Verwirrung sorgen kann wenn man es nicht kennt!
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Diese Barium-Wolken sehen schon von der Erde beeindruckend aus, wie wirken sie erst wenn man sie in 40.000 ft sieht?
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Weitere Aufnahmen von vorherigen Sounding-Raketen-Missionen:
