The blackness is from the light burning through the negative; they didn't know exactly how to photograph such a thing the first time around!
A few of my favorite photos of the Trinity test, July 16, 1945 — from the first millisecond to the drifting column of the mushroom cloud.pic.twitter.com/x87lGHD2SO
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Sure — both through instruments, but also from physical evidence, e.g., the desert sand fusing into glass.pic.twitter.com/HT18in980b
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Yes, it launched and ran from 2012-2016 or so. But Google deprecated the API it depends on.
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There will be a not-as-good "substitute" available pretty soon, that works (in a clunkier way) with the downloadable Google Earth.
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They're from Los Alamos' archives. More photos of the test were taken than are usually seen. A few more here: http://thebulletin.org/multimedia/beginning-bomb …pic.twitter.com/PFtld4cTKE
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And if you zoom in far enough, you can even see BOB being born in the hellfire!
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It's amazing that flashburn mark was small as it was, considering it was nitrocellulose film. When ignited, it continues to burn under water
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Still find Tsar Bomba the most beautiful...but great photos...
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David Lynch recently gave his own version of Trinity...
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