Plume Days after the Bolide Explosion (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Plume Days after the Bolide Explosion

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Model and satellite data show that four days after the bolide explosion, the faster, higher portion of the plume (red) had snaked its way entirely around the northern hemisphere and back to Chelyabinsk, Russia.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization

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