<ul><li>A recent study has recorded geophysical signals produced by a space capsule's reentry using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology.</li><li>The study was led by Dr. Carly M. Donahue and her colleagues from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).</li><li>The researchers rapidly deployed DAS interrogators and fiber-optic cables to capture the sonic boom produced by the capsule as it entered Earth's atmosphere.</li><li>The results of the study have implications for predicting meteor and asteroid strikes and could provide a more accurate characterization of their trajectory.</li></ul>

Detection of a Space Capsule Entering Earth’s Atmosphere with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)

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