Imaging observations of lower thermospheric O(1S) and O2 airglow emissions from STS 9 - Implications of height variations

Details Imaging observations of lower thermospheric O(1S) and O2 airglow emissions from STS 9 - Implications of height variations Imaging observations of lower thermospheric O(1S) and O2 airglow emissions from STS 9 - Implications of height variations

Feb 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....94.1417s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, Feb. 1, 1989, p. 1417-1429.

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Nightglow, Oxygen Afterglow, Space Shuttle Mission 41-A, Thermosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry, Oxygen Recombination, Spaceborne Photography, Ultraviolet Spectra, Visible Spectrum

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The lower thermospheric nightglow in the Southern Hemisphere was observed with the Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imager during the Spacelab 1 mission in December, 1983. Observations of emission from O(1S) at 2972 and 5577A, O2 at 7620 A, OH near 6300 A, and the combined emission from the three upper states of O2 which lead to the Herzberg I and II and Chamberlain band emissions in B and near UV are discussed. The altitudes of peak emission heights are determined, showing that the peak heights are not constant with latitude. It is found that airglow heights varied with latitude by as much as 8 km. The observed airglow height pattern near the equator is similar to that of Wasser and Donahue (1979).

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