Image: Hypervelocity Impact Demonstration

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Description: Impact Studies. The photo shows the "energy flash" when a projectile launched at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour impacts a solid surface at the Hypervelocity Ballistic Range at NASA's Ames Research Center. This test is used to simulate what happens when a piece of orbital debris hits a spacecraft in orbit.
Title: Hypervelocity Impact Demonstration
Credit: NASA's Image of the Day Gallery [1] FPC edit from original NASA photo, reduced from 7.1Mb to 227Kb.
Author: NASA
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