Photographic observations of earth's airglow from space

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Nov 1983

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 10, Nov. 1983, p. 1108-1111. Research supported by Lockheed Independent Rese

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Airglow, Earth Observations (From Space), Image Intensifiers, Space Shuttle Mission 31-A, Spaceborne Photography, Spectrophotometry, Earth Limb, Hydroxyl Emission, Oxygen Spectra, Space Transportation System 4 Flight, Spectral Emission

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Observations of earth's airglow from a recent flight of the Space Shuttle have provided new information about emissions in the visible and near infrared portions of the optical spectrum. A new type of image intensifier camera system was carried aboard STS-5, flown in November, 1982. This instrument, which included an objective ruled grating, provided a low resolution, spectrally dispersed image of the limb airglow layer. From the resulting spectra the authors can identify several characteristic airglow emissions. These include the 5577 Å emission of atomic oxygen, the OH Meinel bands, which appear as a continuum, and the atmospheric O2(0-0) band of the b1Σg+ - Χarcmin3Σg- transition.

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