aer_v_bw_o_n (original 1954/1955 Navy photo, USN-668360)
Aerobee sounding rocket panorama of the Earth - spanning from Nebraska to the fringe of the Pacific Ocean.
Informative reference to this photograph and the whole concept of "weather" satellites...possibly since this one captured a hurricane (tropical storm actually) in action for the first time, is available at the following outstanding website:
www.drewexmachina.com/2015/04/01/the-first-weather-satell...
Additionally:
www.nap.edu/read/11991/chapter/4
mobile.twitter.com/nasahistory/status/783698268085682176
A crappy photograph of it, but at least it still exists:
music.si.edu/object/nasm_A19620042000
Credit: NASM website
Note: No named hurricane was active the date this photograph was taken, 5 October 1954. Further research confirms that the "hurricane" was in fact a tropical depression, thus unnamed.
aer_v_bw_o_n (original 1954/1955 Navy photo, USN-668360)
Aerobee sounding rocket panorama of the Earth - spanning from Nebraska to the fringe of the Pacific Ocean.
Informative reference to this photograph and the whole concept of "weather" satellites...possibly since this one captured a hurricane (tropical storm actually) in action for the first time, is available at the following outstanding website:
www.drewexmachina.com/2015/04/01/the-first-weather-satell...
Additionally:
www.nap.edu/read/11991/chapter/4
mobile.twitter.com/nasahistory/status/783698268085682176
A crappy photograph of it, but at least it still exists:
music.si.edu/object/nasm_A19620042000
Credit: NASM website
Note: No named hurricane was active the date this photograph was taken, 5 October 1954. Further research confirms that the "hurricane" was in fact a tropical depression, thus unnamed.