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U.S. Navy Scientists obtain first ultra-violet photograph of the sun Scientists of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have succeeded in obtaining the first ultra-violet full photograph of the sun. It waqs obtained by a special camera recovered from the nose cone of a Navy Aerobee III rocket launched March 13th 1959 at White Sands Missile range. The rocket reached an altitude of 123 miles where the light is midway between observable light and x rays. Lyman Alpha radiation formed the image on specially prepared photographic film. The experiment was conducted during a series of rocket astronomy experiments being conducted by the naval research laboratory under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year

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