{"id":240054,"date":"2026-07-01T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sound-waves-reconstruct-alaska-fireball-path-after-cameras-miss-key-details"},"modified":"2026-07-01T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:03:42","slug":"sound-waves-reconstruct-alaska-fireball-path-after-cameras-miss-key-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sound-waves-reconstruct-alaska-fireball-path-after-cameras-miss-key-details","title":{"rendered":"Sound waves reconstruct Alaska fireball path after cameras miss key details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sound-waves-reconstruct-alaska-fireball-path-after-cameras-miss-key-details2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such events\u2014cameras and satellites\u2014did not provide a detailed picture. But the meteoroid left behind something else: low-frequency sound waves that traveled hundreds of miles and were captured by a dense network of earthquake and volcano-monitoring sensors on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Using those signals, a Sandia National Laboratories-led team of researchers, students and citizen scientists reconstructed the object\u2019s path through the atmosphere, where it broke apart and where debris likely fell.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025JE009440\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in the <i>Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets<\/i>, the team showed how low-frequency sound waves, faint ground vibrations, weather radar data and publicly shared videos can be combined to reconstruct a fireball\u2019s path even when optical coverage is sparse or incomplete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such events\u2014cameras and satellites\u2014did not provide a detailed picture. But the meteoroid left behind something else: low-frequency sound waves that traveled hundreds of miles and were captured by a dense network of earthquake and volcano-monitoring sensors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}