A far ultraviolet image of Comet Halley, taken by an electronic camera aboard a suborbital rocket 300 kilometers above Earth, showing a hydrogen cloud surrounding the comet and extending tens of millions of kilometers from the nucleus. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Texas launched the rockets to obtain images of the comet at a variety of ultraviolet wavelengths
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Space
Scene Camera Operator: Naval Research Laboratory
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
13/03/1986
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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