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Original – Sound suppression system to dampen acoustic vibrations from the Space Shuttle Main Engines. Without this system, the shuttle could experience destructive vibrations.
Reason
High image quality, captures the size of humans relative to the massive flow rate of water on the pad, rare test, image is well composed. It has a free use license, per NASA policy.
Articles in which this image appears
Mobile Launch Platform, Space Shuttle, and Rocket
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator
NASA

Promoted File:Sound suppression water system test at KSC Launch Pad 39A.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 23:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]