Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already ...
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Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before'

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
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Scientists track air pollution from SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time

Scientists tracked lithium pollution from a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time, linking rocket debris to atmospheric changes using LIDAR measurements over Europe.
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What Goes Up Must Come Down

The study found that those aerosols could warm parts of the upper atmosphere by about 1.5 degrees Celsius within one or two ...
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How powerful lasers can measure air pollution from space debris

Scientists directly measured the lithium left behind in the mesosphere when pieces of a SpaceX rocket fell to Earth over ...