Water Vapor Plume (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Water Vapor Plume

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The Sub Millimeter Radiometer on the European Space Agency’s Odin satellite observes the STS-135 water vapor plume at 99 km tangent altitude. Shown above (as the colored dots) are eight 12-hour time steps of the plume motion, which is north and east from the US east coast. This rapid transport is unexplained by standard models of upper atmospheric winds.

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