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Credit & Copyright: Wayne Showalter
Explanation:
Yes, but can your sunset do this?
Looking west from
Tucson,
Arizona,
USA one day last month, the sunset sky
looked strange when it briefly lit up
with the plume of a rocket launched from
California a few minutes earlier.
Appearing at times like a
giant space fish, the impressive rocket launch from
Vandenberg Air Force Base near
Lompoc, California, was so noticeable because it was
backlit by the setting Sun.
The
Falcon 9
rocket successfully
delivered to
low Earth orbit 28
Starlink communications satellites.
The plume from the first stage is seen on the right,
while the soaring upper stage rocket is seen at the apex of the
plume on the far left.
The picturesque foreground includes the arms of
saguaro cacti,
city lights of Tucson, and the
Tucson Mountains.
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