NASA Uses Sun To Image Aircraft Shockwaves

Hard on the heels of its stunning images of the shockwaves produced by a supersonic aircraft via air-to-air schlieren photography, NASA has released similar images taken from the ground and using the Sun as the background. NASA’s Air-to-air Background-Oriented Schlieren (AirBOS) processing technique...

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