On the playa again [offline for 3 days]

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We are on the way to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry. Many rockets are built in the garage from scratch, including the solid propellant for the motors. First time for us, we are looking forward hearing the roars and sonic booms, and seeing the spectacle. Some rockets are going to explode, the probability is not too small.

 

You can drive on the playa (dry lake bed) at high speed. It is quite safe, there is no police around, and you can see other moving vehicles by the huge dust cloud they cause. The playa is gypsum, a compressible and very fine-grained material.

 

See you next week - we will be offline for the next 3 days.

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.

 

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC4316_hdr1bal1f

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