NASA launches really nice Nikon DSLR camera strapped to rocket to gather photos of Sun



Slow news day after the latest Nikon announcements – enjoy this story “NASA launches really nice Nikon DSLR camera strapped to rocket to gather photos of Sun“:

CAPE CANAVERAL—Expressing excitement about the collaborative mission with the European Space Agency, NASA officials announced Monday the successful launch of a really nice Nikon DSLR camera strapped to a rocket to gather photos of the sun. “Thus far, we’ve been limited in our ability to take images of the sun, but this baby is a top-of-the-line camera, which, according to a number of Amazon reviews, takes really great pics,” said NASA senior project manager Melissa Bolton, browsing through the high-quality images of trees and birds that her solar launch team had shot at a nearby park with the Nikon D810A.

Via The Onion