Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Delta II and NPP at dusk
2011-10-27
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/6287278907/in/photostream
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The Delta II rocket with its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft payload is seen shortly the service structure was rolled back on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. NPP is the first NASA satellite mission to address the challenge of acquiring a wide range of land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements for Earth system science while simultaneously preparing to address operational requirements for weather forecasting. NPP is scheduled to launch early Friday morning.
