NASA image - help me identify this 'thing!' #weirdness inside!#, page 1

Please for the love of God can any one help me ident this weird 'thing' ???

Look at it for Goddness sake - what in hells name are they doing, why the air tanks and why the hell are they using a gieger counter ?????

grin.hq.nasa.gov...

Grab it before it vanishes!

No, it's not a flying saucer, it is the domed top to a 70 foot long vacuum tank at the Lewis Research Center's Electric Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. The three technicians shown here in protective clothing had just emerged from within the tank where they had been cleaning in the toxic mercury atmosphere, left after ion engine testing in the tank. Lewis has since been renamed the John H. Glenn Research Center. grin.hq.nasa.gov...

reply to post by Dan Tanna

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Dan --

No offense intended here, but a description of that object can be found on the exact website from which you linked that photograph in your OP. Granted, there are quite a few pictures on that site, but it took me less than 20 minutes to find that image and its description (the one posted by FredT).

A good starting point to find info on an image is to go to the "home page" of the website from which the images is linked -- in this case grin.hq.nasa.gov (simply drop the /IMAGES/LARGE/...etc after the ".gov" part in the address bar) -- then serching for the image from there.

reply to post by Dan Tanna

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No worries! I didn't mean to make you feel bad; just trying to help out the next guy who can't identify a photo.

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