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Looks like but not a rocket launch, it's a fading contrail (ice crystals) generated by a jet plane over 30,000 feet from the ground.
Contrails (Condensation Trails in full) that I just learn this terms today. It is just beautiful with the sun as a backlight.
Edited ISS040 image of a cloudy Earth. If you look closely, you can see contrails from planes above the clouds.
These are the same contrails as in the previous shot (plus one new one), but about 15 minutes later; The sun was beginning to set and was throwing up quite a pinky orange light on the trails.
I don't know whether it was just that I noticed it more than usual, but there seemed to be more air traffic than we usually see today...
The landscape version, with a wallpaper serving suggestion. Help yourself!
Photographed atop Granite Peak, Squaw Valley, California
Photographer's Note: the squiggly contrail center/right was made by an Atlas V rocket launching the WorldView 3 commercial Earth imaging satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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In 1996, a chemtrail conspiracy theory began to circulate when the United States Air Force (USAF) was accused of "spraying the US population with mysterious substances" from aircraft "generating unusual contrail patterns."
Contrails (short for "condensation trails") are artificial clouds that are the visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they may precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice crystals.
The Air Force says these accusations were a hoax fueled in part by citations to a strategy paper drafted within the Air Force's Air University entitled Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025. The paper was a response to a military directive to outline a future strategic weather modification system for the purpose of maintaining the United States' military dominance in the year 2025. The Air Force further clarified that the paper "does not reflect current military policy, practice, or capability," and that it is "not conducting any weather modification experiments or programs and has no plans to do so in the future."
After two Airbus A330s, 4 Boeing 747s, a 737, a 767 and a 777, there is plenty of contrails to see in the afternoon sky today.
Contrails with the California coast in view. About to descend to land at SFO. Taken on United Airlines, Boeing 747-422, N177UA. PVG-SFO
A contrail is "a visible trail of condensed water vapor or ice crystals in the wake of an aircraft." Saw this one while out walking in Hood River, Oregon.
Taken at Devil's Point the other night.Not the sharpest,but did have one of my tripod legs in the blackberry bush!
Kept the foreground almost in sihouette as not the best of foregrounds to see but the sky turned out better than expected.
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