Originally Posted by
OhOh
That is a launch photo, yes?. As there appears to be three groups of engines and don't the side boosters land independently?
Those engines and surrounding equipment must get a lot hotter when coming down, into the hot exhaust zone. Compared to taking off, when most of the heat is cooled by the new fuel and is quickly left behind.
Saying that in some of the heavy rocket launch videos they do seem to take an age before starting to move at all and then moving upwards at any speed.
Are there any videos/pictures of that type/quality showing the, landing on the barge/ground pad, phase?
I'm pretty sure you have an 8 TB full, attached to your computers and your house wall sized screen, as I type.