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Seeing Shock Waves

NASA scientists are using a modern version of a 150-year-old photography technique to capture images of shock waves created by supersonic jets.


Imagery courtesy of the Calcium-K Eclipse Background Oriented Schlieren (CaKEBOS) team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published October 7, 2015
Data acquired 2015

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