From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida,
the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 was launched into
an orbit around the earth.
The spacecraft, commonly known as the “Paddlewheel”
satellite, featured a photocell scanner that transmitted a
crude picture of the earth’s surface and cloud cover from
a distance of 17,000 miles.
The photo, received in Hawaii, takes nearly 40 minutes to
transmit.
Released by NASA in September, the first photograph ever
taken of the earth by a U.S. satellite.
One of the first pictures of Earth transmitted.
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