SP-168 EXPLORING SPACE WITH A
CAMERA
EXPLORING
SPACE WITH A CAMERA
Nearly one full hemisphere of the Earth is
revealed in this picture, showing South America, much of North
America, and parts of Africa, Europe, and Greenland. It was taken on
November 18, 1967, by ATS III, which was stationed over the Equator
at approximately 47° W. "This picture," explains LEONARD JAFFE,
Director, Space Applications Programs, NASA, "is actually made up of
2400 horizontal lines, with each line encompassing a swath of Earth
approximately 2 nautical miles wide and extending from horizon to
horizon. Using very careful scrutinizing techniques, features as
small as 2 nautical miles on a side can be seen. As evidenced here,
color makes it easier to distinguish between clouds, dry land, green
vegetation, and bodies of water. A particular example is the clarity
with which Lake Titicaca (a tiny dark spot) can be observed at the
bend in the west coast of South America."
- Contents -
Foreword
Introduction
SECTION ONE: ABOVE THE
ATMOSPHERE
- Prelude to
Progress.
- The
Clouds Draw a Map.
- A Satellite
Discovers a Hurricane . . . and Begins to Save
Lives.
- Ice Is Tracked .
. . and a Cold Line Opens.
- 480 Pictures in
24 Hours Girdle the Globe.
- Latest Pictures
Are Broadcast.
- In-Depth
Research.
- Night
Temperatures and Clouds.
- Europe Tunes
In.
- More Than Men
See.
- The Curls in
Clouds.
- Help for
Cartographers.
- Every Day's
Weather Everywhere Becomes a Matter of Record.
- AIma's 9-Day
Whirl.
- Weather Pictures
for the Asking.
- Characteristics
of Churning Air.
- Daily Global
Weather Coverage.
- Fast Service for
Airmen.
- Six Disturbances
Seen SimuItaneously.
- A Day Passes a
Stationary Photographer.
- Storms are
Photographed From their Cradles Until They Die.
SECTION TWO: TO THE
MOON AND BEYOND.
- The Moon That
Man Had Never Seen Before.
- Rangers Bring
the Moon Up Close.
- First Soft
Landings on the Moon.
- Footprints in
the Lunar Soil.
- Surveyor I
Takes a Look Around.
- A Far Mountain,
a Near Crater.
- The Long Lunar
Night Descends.
- Self-Portraits
of a Star Performer.
- After the Sun
Went Down.
- Hop, Skip, and
Jump.
- Putting Man's
Hands on the Moon.
- Relating
Surveyor III to Its Surroundings.
- Surveyor V
Lands and Slides.
- Investigating
What the Moon Is Made of.
- Surveyor Vl
Checks Out Another Landing Site for Apollo.
- Lessons in the
Lunar Soil.
- Surveyor Vll
Examines Tycho's Highlands.
- Spotting Two
Laser Beams From Earth.
- Recording
Details of Lunar Highlands.
- Surveyor Vll
Repairs Itself . . . and Photographs a Hard
Day's Work.
- Man's First
Look at Earth From the Moon . . . and an Oblique View of the Moon
Itself.
- Orbital Tours
Bring Surprises.
- Orbiter II Takes
the "Picture of the Year".
- Ancient Lava
Flows and a Rock Field.
- Orbiters Help
Find a Place for Men To Land.
- The Spot Where
Ranger VIII Crashed.
- Orbiter III
Locates Surveyor I. . .
and Peers
Into Tsiolkovsky.
- The Moon's Face
Grows More Familiar.
- Stories in the
Moon's Scars.
- Some Studies
in Rocks and Rilles.
- Orbiter IV
Maps the Moon's Near Side.
- A Crater as
Big as New York State.
- Moon "Dunes"
Against a Crater Wall.
- Orbiter V
Photographs the Nearly Full Earth.
- A Closer Look
at Copernicus.
- Lunar Tales in
Tracks and Troughs.
- The Intricate
Structure of Tycho.
- Penetrating
Views of Aristarchus.
- Schroter's
Valley and Some Sinuous Rilles.
- The Moon's
Pale Self and Distant Views.
- Earth's First
Close Views of Mars.
SECTION THREE: MAN'S
VENTURES INTO SPACE.
- From Cameras
Held by Men.
- A New Art
Germinates.
- Men Stepped
Out in 1965.
- A Variety of
Shores.
- Rendezvous at
17 000 mph.
- Targets
Attained.
- Above and
Beyond.
- Zodiacal
Light.
- And a Star's
Spectrum.
- Tethered
Targets.
- The
Astronauts' Record Climb.
- The Next Big
Step.
APPENDIX
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- Nimbus
- Tiros
- ESSA
- ATS
- Ranger
- Mariner
- Lunar
Orbiter
- Surveyor
- Mercury
- Gemini
- Apollo
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