Meteor Shower Sounds Captured by Space Radar

The U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas recorded echoes of the Perseid Meteors as they passed over the monitoring facility. Includes imagery of a meteor photographed by astronaut Ron Garan aboard the International Space Station.

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• internatinal space station
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• iss
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• space surveillance radar
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[5starhollywood321]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOUND IN SPACE! THERE HAS TO BE AIR PRESENT!

[VideoFromSpace]

@5starhollywood321 Right. But sound comes out of your radio and your TV. What we present here are the radio waves produced by the bounce of radar off the incoming meteors, put through your speakers or earphones. Just like Radio and TV.

[player1vladimir]

Well isn't space in vacuum and sound can't travel in vacuum?

[VideoFromSpace]

@player1vladimir Yes. What you are hearing are the electromagnetic pulses from the radar track translated into sound. Like listening to crosstalk between radio stations.

[player1vladimir]

@VideoFromSpace ooh that explains a lot :)

One more question not related to this.

In movies we often see space explosions like fires but it is said that it needs oxygen for fire to burn. So is it possible to have fire and explosion in space?

How does the sun burn if there is no oxygen?

[VideoFromSpace]

@player1vladimir Fire (rapid oxidation) CAN happen in space IF there's oxygen present. The Russian Space Station MIr had a fire on-board which the cosmonaut/astronaut team extinguished. The Sun "burns" under nuclear fusion (as inside a hydrogen bomb, but constant and continuing for 10 Billion years).

[VideoFromSpace]

@Staringkonstantine12 Most likely all of these meteors burned out before landing. But that's not certain. Very often, a "parent body" will break into many pieces which will themselves split up as they go through intense friction heating. What they're made of, how fast they're going, and at what altitude (height) they break up will determine how large the pieces hitting the ground will be. So there's no one easy rule that says an X-sized object in space = and Y-sized meteorite on the ground.

[VideoFromSpace]

@sholartc Uh, yeah. That's kinda what it is...

[freedomfun1]

@VideoFromSpace CORRECT!

[turdferguson9725]

7 people where struck by meteors.

[PredsGrrl]

fwowp oooooooo

[DaReapa12]

it does sound like a shower! with water -.-

[doffen5000]

R2D2, what the fuck are you doing!?

[Pirokiko]

Congrats to being featured on geeksaresexy cause this is an AWESOME video!!

[Hope4uall]

if you can see the color spectrum as it is b urning in a streak like that you get to see all the elementals in it, as they burn off leaving a color spectrum, what was in that comet?

[minjiii004]

amazing