NIGHTGLOW: an instrument to measure the Earth’s nighttime ultraviolet glow—results from the first engineering flight

Autor:	John Krizmanic, E. C. Loh, Rodger Farley, E. R. Christian, L. M. Barbier, Stephen Stochaj, Robert E. Streitmatter, Robert A. Smith, John Mitchell, Scott D. Murphy
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Physics Sounding rocket Meteorology Measure (physics) Airglow Astronomy and Astrophysics medicine.disease_cause Research balloon Atmosphere Atmosphere of Earth medicine Palestine Ultraviolet Remote sensing
Zdroj:	Astroparticle Physics. 22:439-449
ISSN:	0927-6505
Popis:	We have designed and built an instrument to measure and monitor the "nightglow" of the Earth's atmosphere in the near ultraviolet (NUV). In this paper we describe the design of this instrument, called NIGHTGLOW. NIGHTGLOW is designed to be flown-from a high altitude research balloon, and circumnavigate the globe. NIGHTGLOW is a NASA, University of Utah, and New Mexico State University project. A test flight took place from Palestine, Texas on July 5, 2000, lasting about 8 hours. The instrument performed well and landed safely in Stiles, Texas with little damage. The resulting measurements of the NUV nightglow are consistent with previous measurements from sounding rockets and balloons. The results will be presented and discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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