Retrieval of thermospheric atomic oxygen, nitrogen and temperature from the 732 NM emission measured by the ISO on ATLAS 1

Autor:	Marsha R. Torr, Douglas G. Torr, SoPo Yung, Phillip G. Richards, J. A. Fennelly
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	Materials science chemistry.chemical_element Space Shuttle Scale height Atmospheric temperature Atmospheric sciences Nitrogen Geophysics chemistry Observatory Atomic oxygen General Earth and Planetary Sciences Emission spectrum Thermosphere
Zdroj:	Geophysical Research Letters. 20:527-530
ISSN:	0094-8276
DOI:	10.1029/93gl00615
Popis:	The Imaging Spectrometric Observatory (ISO) was a part of the ATLAS 1 Mission flown on the shuttle Atlantis from March 24 to April 2, 1992. During limb scanning operations, the ISO measured the O+(2P) ion emission at 732 nm. We have used a numerical inversion technique to retrieve thermospheric atomic oxygen, molecular nitrogen and temperature profiles. These preliminary results indicate a lower thermospheric temperature cooler than that predicted by MSIS for the solar conditions during the mission. Although the densities agree at low altitudes, the reduced scale height produces O and N2 densities 25 percent lower than the MSIS at 300 km.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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