The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left behind an aurora-like red light after it tore a hole in the ionosphere.
that the red light was not all that bright from his vantage point in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
“San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff light dome providing a landing point for the Milky Way down there.” “This is a well-studied phenomenon when rockets are burning their engines 120 to 190 miles above Earth’s surface,” space physicist Jeff Baumgardner of Boston University tells“The red glow appears when exhaust gasses from the rocket’s second stage cause the ionosphere to recombine quickly.”
Rockets spray out water and carbon dioxide as they travel which can alter the ionization of the ionosphere.that the signature red color of the hole in the ionosphere is a result of oxygen ions combining with the rocket exhaust fumes which releases the same light as a red aurora.
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