VIDEO High Dynamic Range rocket footage is beautiful

High Dynamic Range photography means capturing images at different exposures and combining them to fill in shadows and restore detail to highlights.

Your smartphone probably has a mode that does a version of this, helping to create images that look a little bit more like the human eyes sees. HDR is also coming to video and it's a new technology for TVs as well, so you'll be seeing more balanced and detailed images in the months and years to come.

Well now NASA is using HDR to find out even more about their rockets. A specially designed camera uses several image chips to capture different exposures at the same time and layers them together to restore picture information to extremely bright areas.