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August 22nd, 2020
Credit: Ivan Vagner/Roscosmos/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner released a video last week capturing what appears to be five objects zipping over Antarctica when the space traveler was trying to capture the southern lights from the International Space Station.
Vagner later tweeted that “the very peak of the Aurora Borealis over Antarctica is in the longitude of Australia, i.e. during the flight between them. But in the video you will see something different, not just the glow itself…at 9-12 seconds, 5 objects appear, flying in a parallel course and at the same distance from each other. What do you think it can be – meteors, satellites or…?”
Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner.
Credit: Vagner/Roscosmos
Analysis underway
Frames were taken 1 time per second, Vagner notes, and then collected in a video of 25 frames / sec. “That is, the real time of observation of objects is 52 seconds.”
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner aboard International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
Vagner adds that the information was brought to the attention of the Roscosmos State Corporation management. Materials were transferred to TsNIIMash and IKI RAS for analysis.
To view the video, go to:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1296029475164106752
Credit: Ivan Vagner/Roscosmos
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