NASA X-59 Explainer: Science of Sonic Booms 

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Shock waves are visible around a T-38 trainer aircraft during NASA’s Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights in 2019. Schlieren imaging makes normally invisible changes in air density visible, giving researchers a way to see the same shock waves that can create sonic booms on the ground. NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center used this work to […]

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