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UrduResearchers from Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with other labs and agencies on a campaign to record and characterize the infrasound and seismic waves generated by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule as it moves through Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed, about 26,000 miles per hour.
Tag: Infrasound
Explosions Help Probe Elusive Atmospheric Waves #ASA182
Infrasound waves can probe some of the most complex weather patterns hidden to normal observations, but finding a powerful enough source of infrasound waves can be a challenge unless there is a munitions factory nearby.
Massive Hunga volcano eruption sets new standard for crowdsourcing scientific observation of seismic events
The massive Jan. 15 eruption of the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean was a once-in-a-century event that allowed an international group of 76 scientists using multiple forms of technology to crowdsource their data in ways never before possible.