Far ultraviolet camera/spectrograph
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Categories: Photography, Space
Contributed by: Malaga Smith
Far ultraviolet camera/spectrograph
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George Carruthers (b.1939) invented the far ultraviolet camera/spectrograph in 1969. It was plated in gold and carried aboard the Apollo 16 mission, where it was placed on the moon’s surface. The camera used ultraviolet light, invisible to the naked eye, to capture high-quality images of Earth.
