ATMOSPHERIC MANMADE GLOWINGS OBSERVED DURING LAUNCH AND FLIGHT OF A SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET

摘要

Exotic types of luminosities observed in the upper atmosphere always take place during the launch and flight of solid-propellant rockets. We consider a large-scale geometry and dynamic features of such phenomena also physics of the intense turquoise (blue-green) glow observed in twilight conditions in the region of missile flight. This study has been based on numerous observations of different rocket flights in the atmosphere over Russia and Scandinavia. Formation of the monoxide aluminum clouds observed in the upper atmosphere is a result of interaction of the exhausted propellant products with the atomic oxygen. The sunlight excited the monoxide aluminum (-AlO~*-) resonance emissions in the atmosphere. Careful studies of spectra of the manmade luminosities during rocket launch/flight permit us to know chemical, thermal and mechanical processes in the atmosphere similar as it is doing in experiments with the artificial cloud release from sounding rockets in the high latitude atmosphere.