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by Koino
Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog (2010 Feb 23)
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Re: APOD: Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog (2010 Feb

Hello, Apart from the origin of the waves, I'm not quite sure what makes them visible. Is it cloud being compressed when it's hit by the wave, decompressed in its wake? So we're not looking at 'waves against a background of cloud' (why would you see that?) but rather part of that cloud being activel...