To: moonshot925
In many pics of Atomic explosions, what are those white streaks you often see near the ‘Mushroom Cloud’ that appear to be going up and down from the ground to the sky? (anyone know?)
They almost appear to be from a secondary explosion of some sort from within the bomb itself.
13 posted on
08/12/2012 4:22:58 PM PDT by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: KoRn
In many pics of Atomic explosions, what are those white streaks you often see near the ‘Mushroom Cloud’ that appear to be going up and down from the ground to the sky? (anyone know?)
Ground launched rockets used to help measure the height and speed of rise of the mushroom cloud.
To: KoRn
I believe they are referred to as streamers....Just some matter being vaporised I suppose!!
21 posted on
08/12/2012 4:46:12 PM PDT by
ontap
To: KoRn
In many pics of Atomic explosions, what are those white streaks you often see near the ‘Mushroom Cloud’ that appear to be going up and down from the ground to the sky? (anyone know?) They almost appear to be from a secondary explosion of some sort from within the bomb itself.
The exhaust plumes from a salvo of sounding rockets, used to collect data from the blast.
26 posted on
08/12/2012 4:59:35 PM PDT by
Spirochete
(Sic transit gloria mundi)
To: KoRn
In many pics of Atomic explosions, what are those white streaks you often see near the ‘Mushroom Cloud’ that appear to be going up and down from the ground to the sky? (anyone know?)Yes. Those are instrument-carrying rockets intended to measure various aspects of a test explosion. What you're seeing are the rocket trails, going from the ground up.
28 posted on
08/12/2012 5:02:46 PM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
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To: KoRn
The yield of the bomb can be estimated from the horizontal distortion of the vertical stream made by smoke rockets. The rockets were launched just prior to the explosion.
30 posted on
08/12/2012 5:06:40 PM PDT by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: KoRn
“In many pics of Atomic explosions, what are those white streaks you often see near the ‘Mushroom Cloud’ that appear to be going up and down from the ground to the sky? (anyone know?)”
Those were made by small rockets fired off instants before the bomb went off to generate smoke trails so as to give a visual indication of the propagation of the shock wave.
32 posted on
08/12/2012 5:09:51 PM PDT by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: KoRn
what are those white streaks They are rockets that are launched just before the test.
They are spaced apart so that they become distance markers.
They are used for making measurements of the yield.
To: KoRn
They are smoke rockets fired near the blast site to allow accurate scaling to be derived from photos.
Cheers!
46 posted on
08/12/2012 6:20:20 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: KoRn
They are smoke rockets fired near the blast site to allow accurate scaling to be derived from photos.
Cheers!
48 posted on
08/12/2012 6:26:25 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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