Far-ultraviolet images of Comet Halley taken by Naval Research Laboratory electrographic cameras aboard NASA rockets. The left half of the photo is an ultraviolet spectrogram that shows separate images of the comet at the wavelengths of atomic oxygen and carbon. The right half of the photo shows a direct image of the atomic hydrogen halo around the comet
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Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: Naval Research Laboratory
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/02/1986
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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