Image from signonsandiego.com
Did anyone else happen to catch the DARPA rocket last night? I was headed to P.B. to do some fish tacos on the beach with Bart and gang when I saw it from the freeway. The sun lit it the exhaust trail as if it was a swirling line of multi-colored fire across the sky. It stayed visible for several minutes after finishing its burn. Quite amazing.
The satellite payload is supposed to “gather information about the Earth’s environment in low orbit”. I wonder what else..
That picture looks so sweet. I looked through the photos on the flickr tag – “minotaur” – really wish I was in town to have seen it.