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KSC-07pp2987
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Spewing twin columns of fire from the solid rocket boosters, space shuttle Discovery roars into the blue Florida sky toward space on mission STS-120 to the International Space Station. Below the three main engines are the blue cones of light, known as shock or mach diamonds. They are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system. Liftoff of Discovery was on time at 11:38:19 a.m. EDT.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-07pp2987. NASA/KSC, 2007-10-23. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pp2987.
