Atlas 5 Rocket Leaves ripples in the clouds from its sonic boom.

Comments [0] posted: Mar 11, 2010 Greg O'Byrne

Very cool video of an Atlas 5 launch [launch details here] that leaves ripples in the clouds as it breaks the sound barrier.  If you notice there is a “Sun Dog” there too that gets dispersed from the sound shock waves.

Really Cool.

Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog from barbara tomlinson on Vimeo.

Video from Kennedy Space Center Apollo Center February 11, 2010. Launch of Solar Dynamics Observatory on an Atlas V rocket. About 1 minute 14 seconds after liftoff the vehicle went supersonic. The shock wave obliterated a sun dog. It was really beautiful, and poetic for this mission. A sun dog or parhelion is a bright rainbow effect in the sky caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals.


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