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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Purple Mountains' Majesty

The Organ Mountains of southern New Mexico
Not much to complain about on this morning's hike--beautiful, sunny skies, warm temperature, and even a missile launch from White Sands Missile Range to boot.  That's the launch in the middle of the second photo, and the missile contrail in photo three.
Missile launch over the Organs

Missile contrail

Crab Nebula-type cloud

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

I wonder why kind of missile they were launching?

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