MYSTERY OF THE SUN

Duration: 26 min

Year Published: 1960

Creator: CES-TV; Dr. Herbert Friedman

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Fires rockets during an eclipse of the sun which contain extremely delicate detectors and enable him to measure X-rays and ultraviolet rays of the sun; illustrates how the solar corona produces a brilliant flash of X-rays and not ultraviolet light, as had been thought

Complete Record: Source: Carousel Interest level: jh-sh-c-ad Price: $135, rent $15 Format: sd b&w (Conquest ser) Catalog numbers: LC card Fl A 60-630

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)