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Video of the fuel ejection from the second stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which caused the blue spiral phenomenon yesterday. (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even pollution can be pretty

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fortunately, this was just venting LOX (not fuel), so not really much to worry about from a pollution standpoint there :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was this launch special in any way? I had no idea these effects are observable from this side of the planet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No, not particularly. It just happened to be at the right time of day to catch the light in an interesting way.