What’s going on with the air right before the shock wave gets there??? Did the heat cause condensation or something?
Pressure wave.
It can’t be a pressure wave, since that moves at the speed of sound. That’s the shockwave.
It’s probably thermal in nature –the way you see rings or discs of clouds form above & around a nuke’s mushroom cloud.
Then again, for all I know it could be some kind of reflection within the camera lens.
Looks like a lens flare on the camera, stolid. It looks like it is mirror to the actual blast.
What he said.
It’s a heat caused “mirage”, fairly common in desert locations. The image (notice it’s a mirror image) isn’t bright enough to see until the flash of the explosion. You see this a lot with lights, both car and building.
What’s going on with the air right before the shock wave gets there??? Did the heat cause condensation or something?
Pressure wave.
It can’t be a pressure wave, since that moves at the speed of sound. That’s the shockwave.
It’s probably thermal in nature –the way you see rings or discs of clouds form above & around a nuke’s mushroom cloud.
Then again, for all I know it could be some kind of reflection within the camera lens.
Looks like a lens flare on the camera, stolid. It looks like it is mirror to the actual blast.
What he said.
It’s a heat caused “mirage”, fairly common in desert locations. The image (notice it’s a mirror image) isn’t bright enough to see until the flash of the explosion. You see this a lot with lights, both car and building.