I live in FL and every once in a while I see a white cloud streak in the sky. I have always thought it was a jet fighter breaking into M1. I also thought it was a rocket launched by Kennedy Space Center until I saw two streaks recently side by side. Does anyone know what this is.. Just curious.
2007-09-26 03:54:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A single thin white streak is the condensed vapour trail of a jet or a rocket but groups of streaks, slightly broad and long are Cirrus clouds, the highest of all.
2007-09-26 03:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are contrails. They are formed when water vapor coalesces around carbonaceous particles left in the uper atmosphere by aircraft exhaust. They form much the way clouds do.
2007-09-26 11:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by opinionator 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some would say that the government is spraying chemicals
into the atmosphere.
Sometimes you will see that the vapor trails make X mark up
in the sky, that means that is their target area...
2007-09-26 11:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by babybeefcake 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋