Capturing a View of the Antelope Valley’s Superbloom of Poppies

当美国宇航局阿姆斯特朗飞行研究中心安全与任务保障办公室主任格伦·格雷厄姆驾驶他的T-34飞机飞越加州羚羊谷时，他看到了一生中罕见的一幕——罂粟和野花的超级绽放。

由于羚羊谷冬季多雨，沙漠上覆盖着黄色野花和橙色罂粟花，罂粟花是加利福尼亚州的州花。美国国家航空航天局阿姆斯特朗飞行研究中心的员工和家属可以把车停在罂粟保护区，看到这些花。

T-34被研究中心的飞行员熟练操作用于研究飞行的追逐机使用。

As Glenn Graham, director of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance flew his T-34 aircraft over California’s Antelope Valley, he beheld a once in a lifetime event–a superbloom of a superbloom of poppies and wildflowers.

Due to a very rainy winter season for the Antelope Valleya, the desert is covered with a canopy of yellow wildflowers and orange blooming poppies, California’s state flower. NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center employees and families could see the flowers by parking at the Poppy Reserve.

The T-34 is used by the center for pilot proficiency and chase plane for research flights.d cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.