AS09-26C-3789C - Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 Mission image - S0-65 Multispectral Photography - Texas

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Description: Earth Observation taken by the Apollo 9 crew. View is of the Red River, Lake Kemp and Seymour in Texas. Latitude was 33.26 N by Longitude 99.33 W, Overlap was 50%, Altitude miles were 115 and cloud cover was 45%. This imagery taken as part of the NASA S0-65 Experiment ``Multispectral Terrain Photography``. The experiment provides simultaneous satellite photography of the Earth's surface in three distinct spectral bands. The photography consists of four almost spatially identical photographs. The images of ground objects appear in the same coordinate positions on all four photos in the multispectral set within the opto-mechanical tolerances of the Hasselblad cameras in the Apollo 9 spacecraft. Band designation for this frame is C. Film and filter are thin base B/W 3400 Film, Infrared Wratten 89B. Mean Wavelength of Sensitivity is 800nm Infrared. The Nominal Bandpass is 700-900nm.

Subject Terms: Apollo 9 Flight, Earth Observations (From Space)

Categories: Experiment (Non-medical)

Original: Film - 70mm B&W IR

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Apollo 9 - AS09-26D-3854D through AS09-19-2909

apollo multispectral photography multispectral photography nasa apollo 9 view of earth from space texas from orbit high resolution ultra high resolution space program 1960 s us national archives

06/03/1969

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