https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-photographer-melted-camera-not-fried-by-spacex-rocket/ > You may have seen the image dancing across your social media feeds: a thoroughly melted camera still clinging to a tripod mount. This doomed camera belongs to NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, who used it to capture Tuesday's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.  > A lot of people saw the image and the context and assumed the camera was too close to the launchpad and got burned by the awesome power of the Falcon 9 rocket. But Ingalls is an experienced NASA photographer, and he had set this particular shooter at a safe distance away from the rocket's fury.