(March 14 2021) … If you decided to wake up early enough this morning to catch the SpaceX rocket that launched from Florida this morning. Everyone saw the plume on the east coast.
That extra hour of sleep was just too attractive for some of us this morning. Nate Holder got these pictures this morning .. “I was in the Chesapeake bay headed up to Cape Charles from Lynnhaven”
When rockets are launched during sunrise you get this plume effect. It looks like a comet or meteor streaking across the sky. The sun lights up the plume or cloud and it glows against the darker sky. This is the ninth launch of the Falcon 9 first stage booster. Sixty Starlink satellites were put up with this launch … March 14, 2021