WASHINGTON: NASA on Friday (Mar 22) published satellite photos of a powerful meteor which appeared just above the Bering Sea on Dec 18 but went ...
The photographs were taken by two NASA instruments on board the Terra satellite.A still image was taken at 2350 GMT, while five of the of nine cameras on the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument took another sequence of photos at 2355, which NASA collated into a GIF that shows the orange trailMeteors are rocks from outer space that become incandescent upon entering earth's atmosphere as a result of friction. They are also known as shooting stars.
It was the most powerful explosion in the atmosphere since the fireball that burst over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013. That was 440 kilotons, and left 1,500 people injured, mostly from glass flying out of smashed windows.The first photo of the event was taken by a Japanese weather satellite and published only this week.
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