The first man-made multi-colored meteor shower, the Sky Canvas project, is scheduled to light up the sky in 2025, but its creators insisted that it is not just for show.
The first artificial meteor shower in history will be produced by the Tokyo-based space company Astro Live Experiences ALE, and shooting stars created by humans will be visible from the UK.
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The celestial light show, known as project Sky Canvas, will involve launching satellites into orbit and using "space fireworks."
In addition to providing unprecedented levels of entertainment, the project's developers at ALE hope to gather atmospheric data from the mesosphere that will be crucial to the study of climate change.
Roughly 31 to 53 miles above the earth, there is the largely unexplored mesosphere, which is currently too high for observation by weather balloons and aircraft but too low for satellites to observe.
ALE's founder and CEO, Dr. Lena Okajima, stated that their mission is to bring space closer to the people on earth and to help ensure the continued development of humanity, the Daily Mail UK reported.
The team of experts thinks that can increase scientific knowledge of climate change while arousing people's interest in space and the universe on a global scale.
Preliminary experiments on the ground have successfully produced multicolored shooting stars, much to the delight of their inventors, but the company claimed that it is still too early to tell whether such a product is possible in orbit.
Scientists are hoping to learn more about wind direction and speed as well as the makeup of the atmosphere by examining the light emission and trajectories of each star that has been created by humans.
The launch, which was initially slated for 2020 but was postponed because of a satellite issue, is now expected to occur as planned in 2025.
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First Human-Made Multi-Colored Meteor Shower
Naturally, shooting stars happen when meteoroids, or space dust and small asteroids, enter the planet's atmosphere and combust, leaving a brilliant trail of gas in their wake.
Small metal pellets, about one centimeter in diameter, will be launched from satellites orbiting the Earth and dropped at a height of about 249 miles to replicate this.
The particles are anticipated to travel over 8,000 miles, or one-third of the distance around the globe, before they enter the atmosphere at an altitude of 60 to 80 km and illuminate the night sky.
Thousands of people will watch the spectacle in many nations, including perhaps the UK.
According to ALE, it aspires to provide viewers from all over the world with the chance to witness the first live multicolored meteor shower created by humans.
The company also pledged to take all reasonable measures to prevent Sky Canvas from colliding with other artificial objects and creating more space debris, Sky News reported.
The World Intellectual Property Organization stated that ALE has developed three related projects in the areas of atmospheric data collection, debris mitigation, and man-made shooting stars over the past ten years.
To "make space closer," as the company puts it, and to advance scientific knowledge, all three projects contributed to the company's mission.
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