It’s Halloween and the folks at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center are probably feeling a chill up their spines thanks to some spooky images captured by sky-watching cameras. The cameras are designed to pick up fireballs crossing the night sky, but sometimes weirder entities appear.
Perhaps the most eerie image of them all is one that shows a meteor with what looks like a shadowy hooded figure emerging from the lower corner. It’s likely just a trick of light and reflections, but it’s perfect for Halloween.A Legendary Billionaire Just Flipped On Bitcoin Amid 300 Billion Ethereum XRP And Crypto Price Boom
The All-sky Fireball Network consists of 17 cameras located in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arizona and Florida. The specialized black and white video devices point upward to capture a full view of the sky overhead. “The cameras have overlapping fields of view, which means that the same fireball can be detected by more than one camera,” said NASA. “This allows us to calculate the height of the fireball and how fast it is going.
MEO is tasked with studying meteoroids, which can be a hazard to spacecraft. Those little pieces of rock and iron can cause damage if they impact a satellite, space station or cargo or crew capsule.