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Cloud cover analysis made from mosaic of three photographs taken from a stabilized camera in the nose cone of an Atlas rocket fired from Cape Canaveral. The 3 photos were taken at an altitude of approximately 400 miles. This preceded the launch of TIROS I by 7 months. In: "Operational Use of Weather Satellites", U. S. Navy Research Facility, Norfolk, Va., March 1960.

Image ID: spac0036, NOAA In Space Collection
Location: North Atlantic Ocean
Photo Date: 1959 August 24, 1600 GMT


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