Hello everyone, I, and many on this list, have seen water dumps by shuttles. Now I've just seen one live on NASA TV starting at 06:15 UT, March 9. It was like my head was near the nozzle as the view was from the camera mounted on the arm's end effector. The small nozzle is located on the port side of the orbiter behind and below the hatch. The spray of water moved at high speed and was hard to detect. We could see small ice particles coming off quite often from around the nozzle. When seen from ground these dumps are impressive and it amazes me that water particles so small can be so easy to see. The spray was directed opposite the velocity vector. This dump lasted for about 12 minutes. I always wanted to know where this water was coming out from and I got my answer tonight. The nozzle was easier to see on TV than in my binoculars :-) Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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