Footage from a telescope camera caught the bands arcing left to right. NASA said it wasn't their satellite, and suggested that it was a Chinese one.
—a camera watching the night atop a mountain in Hawaii caught a series of green laser beams darting across the sky.
The camera—looking out from Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano—is attached to the Subaru Telescope, and is a joint venture between theOn January 29, it posted the footage on YouTube, suggesting that the beams could have come from a remote-sensing laser altimeter from NASA's ICESat-2/43613 satellite, launched in September 2018 as part of its Earth Observing System with the goal of measuring and monitoring the impacts of climate change. According to NASA, it is able to emit 10,000 pulses a second.
Citing Anthony Martino, a deputy project scientist working on the ICESat-2 mission, the NAOJ note said the lights were"not by their instrument but by others."
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