Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel



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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.

It’s pretty awesome.

So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that thing that airplane wings and refrigerators have in common. The more air pressure descends, the more lift you get and the colder the air gets. It’s a problem when you’re flying something really heavy really fast in an atmosphere that has water in it.