![NASA's X-59 airplane is seen parked with the open desert behind it and a row of city lights on part of the horizon.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/p23-172-06.jpg)
X-59 at Sunrise
With the sun about to rise over the California high desert, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen fully assembled and painted on the ramp at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale where the airplane was constructed.
Image Credit: Lockheed Martin
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TakenDecember 12, 2023
Image CreditLockheed Martin
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