Amazing Pictures

[Jocephus]

theres a frog in the smoke?

[stlouie_lipp]

yep - shot in the air

[Jocephus]

is it really a frog?

[StL Dan]

The last page or two of pictures look "fake" to me. No way does the perfect outline of a frog appear in a nighttime shot of a rocket launch. Sorry.

[Jocephus]

"The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain," NASA says on its website, but these kind of things tend not to end well for amphibians.

So how did it get there in the first place?

"The launchpad at the Wallops/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport has a 'pool' for the high-volume water deluge system that activates during launches to protect the pad from damage and for noise suppression, and likely there was a (formerly) damp, cool place that was a nice spot for a frog to hang out," Universe Today reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/inno ... =allsearch

[StL Dan]

Well.....ok, then. Still looks conjured, even if legit.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Well.....ok, then. Still looks conjured, even if legit.

Hence, amazing.

[go birds]

What a cool way to go out

[Vidor]

What a cool way to go out

Seriously.

Large, hi-res image of frog picture at NASA website

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/ ... M_ID=17966

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