The Russian scientific orbiter "Mikhailo Lomonosov", created to study transient light phenomena in the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere, has registered something very strange.
The satellite, as Mikhail Panasyuk, head of the Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University, told the media, recorded light explosions of colossal power, the nature of which remains unknown to science.
“Everything indicates that the satellite“Mikhailo Lomonosov”has encountered physical phenomena that are new for us,” Panasyuk noted.
Powerful light explosions, according to the head of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University, were observed several tens of kilometers above the planet's surface, and were recorded in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum. The source of the strange outbreaks, however, has not yet been identified.
“Explosions of colossal power, and under them (as well as above them) everything is clear - no clouds, nothing. What it is - we can only guess,”said Panasyuk.
Mikhailo Lomonosov was delivered to Earth orbit in the spring of 2016. The device was created by the VNIIEM corporation by order of the Moscow State University. The development and launch of Lomonosov cost the university five hundred million rubles. Now the university owns three operating satellites - "Mikhailo Lomonosov", as well as student mini-satellites "Tatiana-1" and "Tatiana-2".
Kolesnikov Andrey