ie the sunlight that the trail caught from the air but the vantage point was further around the globe, the pic was taken just before sunrise.
they can get machines to alter course to the Nth of a degree during flight, i feel its highly plausible that such a symmetrical pattern could be created.
plus the differing colours and pattern of each spiral will be linked to the relative density/ reflectivity and composition of the material.
it was a bloody spazzed out rocket man!
