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Description
View of tropical cyclone centered near Del Rio, Texas. This picture showed thepromise of satellite monitoring of weather. The picture was made from moviecameras mounted in a Navy Aerobee rocket fired from White Sands Proving Ground.Operational Use of Weather Satellites, U. S. Navy Research Facility, Norfolk,Virginia, March 1960.
Display Date
1954, October 5, 1815 GMT
Location
Southwest United States
Collection
NOAA in Space
Keywords
Space
Imagery
Visible