Impact Flash ultra high speed (VIDEO)

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Caption

Ultra-high-speed movie showing two views of an impact flash, and crater and ejecta development during the first few microseconds, for a stainless steel sphere impacting an aluminum alloy plate at 3 kilometers per second.

Credit

Simpson et al.

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