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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
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.
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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The Project is in Reality a US NAVY Space Program project to Create an Artificial Dust Shield for Military Purpose ....
SOURCE: Active Perturbation of the Near Earth Space Environment by Prof. Wayne A. Scales, PhD - Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Being an expert in computational
space plasma physics has involved Wayne Scales in projects from analyzing
the effects of high-altitude nuclear detonations to creating and perturbing
charged dust clouds in space.
In a multi-university effort funded by the Department of Defense, Scales and Joseph Wang, an aerospace professor, are developing a model to mitigate the impact of the earth's radiation belts on space assets. "This is part of a multi-university effort to counteract a high-altitude nuclear detonation (HAND). Such a detonation won't affect the people on earth, but the radioactive particles are predicted to destroy the electronics on spacecraft and basically wipe out most of the low-earth orbiting satellites in about a week," he says. The project's goal is to develop novel techniques of generating electromagnetic waves that interact with the radioactive particles and scatters them out of the radiation belt, he says. "One way to do that is to use a big, high-power transmitter on the ground that sends a high power radio wave. Another option would be to use a satellite that has a high-power transmitter, he says." The Virginia Tech team is involved in a third option: using a spacecraft that ejects chemicals that photo-ionize and create electromagnetic waves which then interact with the radioactive particles to scatter them out of the radiation belts. Scales' and Wang's model addresses the effects within seven days of a high altitude detonation. "We're trying to determine what is the most efficient and quickest way to counteract this threat. How much chemical do we dump? How much wave energy do we need to create for the scattering to be effective? If we dump a certain amount of chemicals, how much wave energy will be involved?" Another project in space computation involves noctilucent clouds that form at the edge of space, shine at dusk, and are believed to be related to global climate change. Over the past several years, the team has developed a comprehensive computation model for investigating the interaction of high power radio waves on these charged clouds for diagnostic purposes. "We've gone as far as we can with the theory; now we want to do experiments to validate our theory;" Scales says. The team is building a radar receiver to use in Alaska at the high frequency active auroral research program (HAARP) facilities The team not only studies natural clouds, but is involved in a Naval Research Laboratory project to create an artificial noctilucent cloud. Called the charged aerosol release experiment (CARE), the project entails sending a sounding rocket from Wallops Island, Va., to create a large dust cloud over the East Coast. The Virginia Tech team will be involved in developing a theoretical and computational model to study the turbulence generated in the charged dust cloud. "Radars will be used to bounce signals off the dust cloud to see if the turbulence, which is linked to global change, is the same as a natural noctilucent cloud," Scales says. The sounding rocket project principal investigator is Paul Bernhardt of the Naval Research Laboratory. "We're working to see if the new Blackstone SuperDARN radar will be able to contribute to the project as well." For more information, visit: www.space.vt.edu Active
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The Project is in Reality a US NAVY Space Program project to Create an Artifitial Dust Shield for Military Purpose ....
The first thing we see here is the large Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Logo. NASA is not even mentioned. Phage linked to this document in the other thread and many of his supporters gave him a star, yet reading that thread there was strangely NO ONE who mentioned that the article showed the real purpose of the experiment, nor the fact that it was a NAVY project, nor that HAARP is most definately involved.
Kwajalien Island involved? That is the USARMY-Space and Missile Defense Command's launch site and has been since 1956 Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile
Defense Test Site (RTS) - Marshall Islands
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Kwajalein_Atoll_01.html
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:18 AM ..
Here is more information on today’s experiment. HAARP and other antenna arrays are being used, I see Norway’s antenna array will be in operation. This information was forwarded to me from California Skywatch. Check out News With Views article by Rosalind Peterson. In her article, Prof. Wayne A. Scales is quoted “…CARE will release its (aluminum oxide) (4), dust particles a bit higher than that, then let them settle back down to a lower altitude.”What the CARE experiment hopes to do is to create an artificial dust layer,” Professor Scales told SPACE.com. “Hopefully it’s a creation in a controlled sense, which will allow scientists to study different aspects of it, the turbulence generated on the inside, the distribution of dust particles and such.” CARE is a project of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program. The spacecraft will launch aboard a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket…Researchers will track the CARE dust cloud for days or even months to study its behavior and development over time…If CARE cannot launch Tuesday, the team can try again between Sept. 16 and Sept. 20, 2009…” Here is the PDF document from Prof. Wayne A. Scales notes (maybe a PowerPoint document) with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Here are some notes from the PDF. This is a chemical alteration of the atmosphere that will affect climate. How is the space environment perturbed ?
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This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. T. Neil Davis is a seismologist at the institute. Strange lights seen in Alaskan skies on late February and early March 1978 evenings have a reasonable explanation. These were chemical releases performed at high altitude aboard rockets flown from the University's Poker Flat rocket range near Fairbanks. The two most beautiful sequences, on February 27 and March l, were conducted by a group of Danish scientists, the first truly international users of Alaska's scientific rocket range. Each Danish rocket released a chemical called trimethylaluminate (TMA, for short) as it sped upward through altitude 80 km (50 miles). At this altitude the rocket was still in darkness and the TMA formed a yellowish trail. Then as the rocket entered sunlight, the TMA being released glowed a beautiful blue color. By photographing the deformation of the TMA trail with cameras at Arctic Village, Fort Yukon and Fairbanks, the Danish scientists measured the wind in the region through which the rocket was flying. A minute or so later, the rocket released a puff of barium gas. The barium release soon formed two clouds that drifted apart. One part, composed of ionized barium, drifted away westward under the influence of the electric field in the high atmosphere. Thus by tracking it, the Danes could measure the electric field. Two more barium releases and then a second TMA release, performed as the rocket fell back toward the earth, allowed additional measurements of the wind and electric field over an extended region above Alaska. The highest barium releases were at altitude 270 km, high enough to be easily seen all over Alaska and western Canada wherever the sky was clear. People have wondered if there was a connection between the barium releases and the extensive auroras that occurred throughout each night following the chemical release. The answer is yes, but the releases did not cause the aurora. It was the other way around. By observing with various instruments, it was known that extensive auroras were already occurring over Alaska when the releases were made in evening twilight. Since the objective was to measure the effects of the aurora on the high-altitude winds, the rockets were purposely flown during times of extensive naturally occurring aurora. |
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