File:Hypervelocity Impact Demonstration.jpg
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| current | 10:58, 9 January 2017 | | 1,474 × 1,134 (224 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p><b>Impact Studies.</b> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Ames_Research_Center" class="extiw" title="en:NASA Ames Research Center">NASA's Ames Research Center</a>. This test is used to simulate what happens when a piece of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/space_debris" class="extiw" title="en:space debris">orbital debris</a> hits a spacecraft in orbit. </p> |
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