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Maybe a knowledgeable person can answer this question: What is the white stuff fluttering down from the rocket?

by philwebster 13y ago

Crito 13y ago
Ice, frozen from water vapor in the air. The rocket is very cold, since it has a bunch of liquid oxygen in it.
lmm 13y ago
Ice that had formed on the oxygen tanks?
TallGuyShort 13y ago
If you watch some of the video footage from Saturn V launches you see some fairly large sheets of ice. Quite impressive scale compared to this!
- Crito 13y ago
  The super slow motion footage is fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcnmthntUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcnmthntUo
  - aninhumer 13y ago
    This version has an interesting commentary instead of silly music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4 The footage is indeed amazing though.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what-was-the-saturn-v-58.html#.UpiP3tJdWOE http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what... > The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants. The rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at launch, creating more power than 85 Hoover Dams. A car that gets 48 kilometers (30 miles) to the gallon could drive around the world around 800 times with the amount of fuel the Saturn V used for a lunar landing mission. It could launch about 118,000 kilograms (130 tons) into Earth orbit. That's about as much weight as 10 school buses. The Saturn V could launch about 43,500 kilograms (50 tons) to the moon. That's about the same as four school buses. To get some rough idea of scale, this blueprint shows a person near the engine / nozzle / thing. http://jleslie48.com/0206pr/saturn5allclean2.jpg http://jleslie48.com/0206pr/saturn5allclean2.jpg

Maybe a knowledgeable person can answer this question: What is the white stuff fluttering down from the rocket?

Crito 13y ago

Ice, frozen from water vapor in the air. The rocket is very cold, since it has a bunch of liquid oxygen in it.

lmm 13y ago

Ice that had formed on the oxygen tanks?

TallGuyShort 13y ago

If you watch some of the video footage from Saturn V launches you see some fairly large sheets of ice. Quite impressive scale compared to this!

Crito 13y ago
The super slow motion footage is fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcnmthntUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcnmthntUo
- aninhumer 13y ago
  This version has an interesting commentary instead of silly music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7ZqtW5U4 The footage is indeed amazing though.
  - DanBC 13y ago
    http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what-was-the-saturn-v-58.html#.UpiP3tJdWOE http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what... > The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants. The rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust at launch, creating more power than 85 Hoover Dams. A car that gets 48 kilometers (30 miles) to the gallon could drive around the world around 800 times with the amount of fuel the Saturn V used for a lunar landing mission. It could launch about 118,000 kilograms (130 tons) into Earth orbit. That's about as much weight as 10 school buses. The Saturn V could launch about 43,500 kilograms (50 tons) to the moon. That's about the same as four school buses. To get some rough idea of scale, this blueprint shows a person near the engine / nozzle / thing. http://jleslie48.com/0206pr/saturn5allclean2.jpg http://jleslie48.com/0206pr/saturn5allclean2.jpg