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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

NASA “makes the invisible visible” by taking incredible photograph of U.S. civilian jet breaking the sound barrier

Image provided by Boom Supersonic and NASA shows XB-1 breaking the sound barrier for the second time.

An image released on Monday has captured the moment a civilian jet broke the sound barrier during a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert.

The photograph, supplied by NASA and Boom Supersonic, captured the moment the XB-1 aircraft – “the first supersonic jet made in America” – broke the sound barrier using a technique known as Schlieren photography to visualize what can’t be seen with the naked eye.

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