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Friday, March 19, 2010

Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)



A Rocket experiment launched over 6 months ago creates artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere.

The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), triggered cloud formation around the rocket’s exhaust particles. The clouds are intended to simulate naturally-occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, which are the highest clouds in the atmosphere.

Noctilucent means “night shining” in Latin. Although difficult to spot with the naked eye, the clouds are best visible when Earth's surface is in darkness and sunlight from below the horizon illuminates the high-altitude clouds. These clouds, also known as polar mesospheric clouds, are made of ice crystals. CARE released its aluminum oxide dust particles a bit higher than that, then let them settle back down to a lower altitude.

The experiment was to create an artificial dust layer in a controlled sense, which will allow scientists to study different aspects of it, the turbulence generated on the inside, the distribution of dust particles and such.

This is a project of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program. The spacecraft was launched aboard a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket…The researchers have been tracking the cloud for months and have studied its behavior and development over time.

The U.S. Navy, NASA, and the U.S. Defense Department have made a decision to conduct another atmospheric tests, in order to create an aluminum oxide dust cloud.  This is all being done without the permission and for the most part, the knowledge of the citizens of the United States.

The dust cloud is generated using the Nihka motor dust generator and is composed of aluminum oxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, water, and nitrogen, as well as smaller amounts of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, monatomic chlorine, and monatomic hydrogen.

These aluminum oxide particles returned to earth polluting our air, water and soils – no one has any idea what damage this dust cloud and the testing on this dust cloud may do to our climate, agriculture, human health or the amount of infrared and UV radiation reaching the Earth. A friend of mine recently past away from "...constant breathing in of organic dust..." [source]





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