Credit & Copyright: NASA
Explanation:
What's that rising from the clouds?
The space shuttle.
If you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time last
week, you could have seen something very unusual -- the space shuttle Endeavour launching
to orbit.
Images of the rising shuttle and its plume
became widely circulated over the web shortly after
Endeavour's final launch.
The above
image was taken from a shuttle training aircraft and is not
copyrighted.
Taken well above the clouds, the image can be matched with similar images of the
same shuttle plume taken
below
the clouds.
Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible near the
rising shuttle, as well
as a long smoke plume.
A shadow of the plume appears on the cloud deck, indicating
the direction of the Sun.
The shuttle
Endeavour remains docked with
the
International Space Station and is currently scheduled to return to Earth next
week.
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