Air Force secret spy plane landing at Vandenberg AFB

This, by way of Space.com, is pretty cool:

More from the piece follows:

The first part of the 80-second video was apparently shot in infrared light. It shows the X-37B space plane cruising in for an automated landing, its belly and nose glowing a bright orange-yellow, presumably from the heat generated during re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. 

The video switches over to visible wavelengths about 35 seconds in, after the space plane has touched down, and shuts off shortly after the X-37B rolls to a stop on the runway.

H/T to Dan Riehl.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

So much for the "secret" part.

Not sure why I, we, need to know this. Can think of many reasons why I don't.