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The sky illuminates in Washington on March 7, 2018, in this still image from Derek Hnilica's video
TAHOLAH, Washington – A lightning flash that illuminates the sky The west of Washington in March is now the subject of a scientific expedition at sea.
The lightning illuminated the night sky – and it also shed light on social media – while the people were starting to speculate on what could have caused it.
"I saw a huge flash of what appeared to be the orange light, light up the entire horizon to the west," said at the time the county sheriff's Greys Harbor, Rick Scott
. the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington. And now, scientists have begun to search for remains of the meteorite on the bottom of the sea.
NASA's cosmic dust warden Marc Fries leads the massive meteor hunt on Monday off Grays County Harbor. reports that Fries used the weather radar to locate the splash zone about 16 miles off the village of Taholah of the Quinault Indian Nation.
On Monday, he will have help from the ship Nautilus operated by Ocean Exploration Trust, founded by explorer Robert Ballard. The crew agreed to dedicate a day and their sophisticated equipment.
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Fries says he's optimistic about finding meteorites in part because the space rock that exploded into a fireball and its boom sound was huge . He says that about 2 tons of rocks survived the dive and dispersed over half a mile of seabed.
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