by APOD Robot » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:00 am
Discovery s Dawn
Explanation: On April 5, visitors to Kennedy Space Center saw these colorful clouds, twisting and drifting through dawn skies. Of course, the clouds were
rocket engine plumes from the
predawn launch of the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission to the
International Space Station. Their layered colors are created as they reflect the reddened light from the still rising Sun. Fittingly, denizens of the space center's
rocket garden are lit in the foreground. At the far left is a 1960s vintage multistage
Atlas-Agena rocket. Together on the right, are
Mercury-Redstone and
Mercury-Atlas rockets.
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