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Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper
(Launch Photography)
Explanation:
Birds
don't fly this high.
Airplanes don't go this fast.
The Statue of Liberty
weighs less.
No species
other than human can even comprehend what is going on,
nor could any human just a millennium ago.
The launch of a
rocket bound for space is an event that
inspires awe and challenges
description.
Pictured above,
an
Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying
NASA's
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
into Earth orbit 10 days ago to study the workings of the
magnetosphere that surrounds and
protects the Earth.
From a standing start, the 300,000 kilogram
rocket ship left to circle the
Earth where the
outside air is too thin to breathe.
Rockets bound for space are now
launched from somewhere on Earth
about once a week.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
Specific
rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.