Photographs From 15 Miles Up
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BLUE EARTH (Minnesota), October 19.
A balloon-borne telescopic camera photographed the sun from 15 miles over the earth yesterday and then came down by parachute, landing on a farm 20 miles south-east of Blue Earth. The unmanned balloon left its launching truck at the Huron, South Dakota, airport. It rose to 15 miles and stayed there for four hours, while the camera shot 8000 telescopic pictures of the sun. The photographic equipment was used for the second time this autumn to get solar pictures unblurred by the earth’s atmosphere. The first “Project Stratocope” flight, launched near Minneapolis on September 25, produced pictures described as the sharpest and most revealing of 'any ever taken of the sun.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 17
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