Pictures: Breaking the Sound Barrier

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

Breaking the sound barrier sometimes creates a visible vapor cone, also called a shock collar or shock egg, resulting from a Prandtl–Glauert singularity.

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