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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Snow Crystal Laser Scattering

We had a lot of blowing ice crystals in the air yesterday night. It was very dark and the cloud altimeter laser on top of the MSF (Mobile Science Facility) was glowing very strongly. The science tech who takes care of the science in that building found that the ice crystals were scattering the laser's light all over the ground. I was able to sort of capture the phenomenon. The light was dancing and jumping and flashing and streaking across the snow. It was beautiful and super interesting.

Big house and Green house lights.