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RE: (meteorobs) Fwd: latest NASA Science News


	Offhand, I'd guess this is the same kind of "thin to thick" refractive
phenomenon you find with water-to-air transitions... best illustrated at Sea
World, where it looks like Shamu is just below the surface... even though,
through the big glass wall, you can clearly see that he's really much
further down.

That's the layman's version, of course...

Clear, non-refractive skies!

Peter

|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-meteorobs@atmob.org [mailto:owner-meteorobs@atmob.org]On
|Behalf Of Lew Gramer
|
|[Arlene's original attempt to post this message failed. -Lew]
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: "arlenecarol" <arlenecarol@turkdot net>
|
|Those of you that don't belong to the NASA list might want to check it out.
|At the end of the article (which includes a really great photograph of the
|constellation of Orion and other phenomena) is this note: "Sky
|watchers who are
|familiar with Orion might have noticed something odd in this
|photo. The hunter's
|right foot--the bright star Rigel--looks like a meteor streaking
|straight down
|into the airglow layer. Why? We'll answer that question in a
|Picture of the Day
|next week."
|
|can anyone on our list come up with an answer before next week's
|Picture of the
|Day comes out? go take a look at the photo.
|
|here's the address:
|
|: International Space Station science officer Don Pettit was
|looking out the
|window recently when the constellation Orion rose above Earth's limb. The
|picture he took shows something rare: a constellation seen both above and
|through Earth's atmosphere--at the same time. Orion's shoulders
|are bright and
|clear against the black of interplanetary space. Orion's belt is
|surrounded by a
|faint hazy-red glow. Orion's feet are ... stuck in the mud?
|:
|: FULL STORY:
|: http://science.nasadot gov/ppod/y2003/03apr_orion.htm
|:
|clear skies ya'll
|
|arlene
|walking in the footsteps of aristotle

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