<![CDATA[io9: aerospace porn]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: aerospace porn]]> http://io9.com/tag/aerospaceporn http://io9.com/tag/aerospaceporn <![CDATA[An FA-18 Emerges From A Transdimensional Wormhole Over Detroit]]> This is a real photograph of an FA-18, completely unblemished by Photoshop. What kind of atmospheric conditions would lead to such an apparition? National Geographic has the answer.

Photographer Kirk McMenamin, who submitted this image to National Geographic's "Your Shot" writes:

This is a shot of an FA-18 performing a high-speed pass that resulted in a vapor cone forming around the back half of the plane. When viewed head-on, it made the plane appear to be coming out of a porthole. The photo was taken during the 2009 Gold Cup Races on the Detroit River.

I think McMenamin meant "portal," not "porthole." Like in Stargate or Lost.

via Your Shot

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5330288&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Wind-Swept Clouds of Mars]]> The Phoenix Lander look a series of photographs of the polar skies this week, and researchers have turned them into a short movie that gives you a shivery sense of what it would be like to stand under Martian skies. Those are ice water clouds, swooshing overhead very much the way clouds do on Earth. Now you can picture what it would be like to be there with Phoenix, with wispy clouds drifting overhead as you dig deeper into Martian permafrost in search of water. [The Great Beyond]

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