File talk:Simulated Van Allen Belts - GPN-2000-002003.jpg

Face at the glass
Who is the guy looking through the window? It's 45 years ago but someone somewhere knows who that man is! Beorhtwulf (talk) 22:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Prank?
Are those the eyes of a cat above him? Do we trust the uploader? Looks like a photoshop job to me. Riventree (talk) 11:16, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

The source link is broken as well.
 * Note:
 * Removed from the article (Van Allen radiation belt) as not needed nor really relevant for the section. Vsmith (talk) 14:03, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Not a prank (at least, not obviously so; and NASA would have to be in on it).
 * The "eyes of a cat" are a two-lamp light fixture. (See, for example, something like this.)  Presumably to provide lighting in the vacuum chamber.
 * The image is not available at the original URL, but a bit of Googling with the photo's file number GPN-2000-002003 finds a copy on one of NASA's Flickr accounts (NASA on The Commons): . It also appears (without the file number) on NASA's own site: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_419.html. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)