Time-lapse videos show off SpaceX's alien-looking rocket launch from the West Coast
People across California had a pretty spooky start to their Christmas weekend, when a SpaceX rocket created a bright, jellyfish looking plume in the twilight sky on Friday.
Time-lapse videos show the incredible, alien sight from the ground, revealing exactly what it looked like to residents on the ground, even those far from Vandenberg Air Force Base, where the Falcon 9 was launched with a clutch of communications satellites onboard.
"I arrived about two hours before launch time (1827 Arizona time) to have my gear prepped and ready for action. I started rolling the time-lapse sequences about 45 minutes prior to launch to capture some lead in footage," photographer Jesse Watson wrote in a video description of his time-lapse on Vimeo. Read more...
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