vik12_v_bw_o_n (1955, USN 669336) - a photo on Flickriver

vik12_v_bw_o_n (1955, USN 669336)

            “If a man-made satellite one day carries a television camera, it may transmit pictures like these back to earth. These photographs of the California-Arizona area were taken February 4, 1955 on infrared film by a K-25 camera mounted in the Navy’s "Viking 12” rocket. The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. has been conducting an upper atmosphere research program with rockets for the government since 1946.
Continuing its descent the rocket is now 116.1 miles above the earth. The slant of the horizon in this photo is due to the roll of the rocket. Near the right hand margin of the picture is a group of Alto Cumulus clouds, and directly left of this cloud cover is the Phoenix Area. The black spot directly below Phoenix toward the bottom of the photo is the Coolidge Dam in Arizona. Upslope fog fills the area between the mountains looking west from Phoenix toward Los Angeles.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
Released by the Dept. of Defense 10 August 1955.”

Taken on: October 17, 2022

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Mt Graham

Viking 12 rocket

Viking 12

Martin Viking

Milt Rosen

Milton Rosen

airglow

oblique view

earth

earth from space

USN

Baja Peninsula

Gulf of California

sounding rocket

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

Viking sounding rocket

Theodore Roosevelt Lake

Salt River

Mt Turnbull

Dos Cabezas Peaks

Wilcox Playa

Mt Lemmon

Mica Mountain

Coolidge Dam

USN 669336 « less

Sets appears in: • Breaking The Bonds & Firsts • Satellites: Views By/Views Of more » • Miscellaneous Photos & Prints « less

Groups appears in: • B&W • Real Rockets (no models please) more » • Space The Final Frontier • Missiles & Rockets « less

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