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    Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. In the case of Earth's atmosphere, this optical phenomenon causes...
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    maximum darkness. Sources of the night sky's intrinsic brightness include airglow, indirect scattering of sunlight, scattering of starlight, and light pollution...
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  • Airglow is a pedal-driven human-powered aircraft. It was designed and developed by brothers John and Mark McIntyre of Cambridgeshire, England. John McIntyre...
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    proteins. The Earth's night sky is illuminated by diffuse light, called airglow, that is produced by radiative transitions of atoms and molecules. Among...
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    atoms of sodium, the sodium layer radiates weakly to contribute to the airglow. The sodium has an average concentration of 400,000 atoms per cubic centimetre...
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    at body temperature The Kármán Line - starring Olivia Colman on Vimeo "Airglow Over the Indian Ocean". NASA Earth Observatory. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2024-04-20...
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    VLF waves ordinarily requires gigantic antennas Generating artificial airglow, which is typically subvisual but routinely detectable.  Under certain...
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    Atmospheric optical phenomena include: Afterglow Airglow Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow. Alpenglow Anthelion...
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    HST actually observed airglow of atomic oxygen in the far-ultraviolet at the wavelengths 130.4 nm and 135.6 nm. Such an airglow is excited when molecular...
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    clear moonless night sky, including airglow 0.0002 lux Starlight, clear moonless night sky, excluding airglow 0.00014 lux Venus at brightest, clear...
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    horizon, with lightning below in the troposphere and above the green line of airglow at the upper mesopause and border to space (the bright light above is the...
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    a band of stratospheric blue sky at the horizon, and a line of green airglow of the lower thermosphere around an altitude of 100 km, at the edge of...
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    1999 in central Oklahoma Atmospheric optical phenomena include: Afterglow Airglow Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow...
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  • A more recent hypothesis is that it is a form of transient aurorae or airglow caused by unusually high solar activity interacting with the upper Venusian...
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    is throwing off material, as is the case with Jupiter and its moon Io. Airglow Aurora (heraldry) Heliophysics List of solar storms Paschen's law Space...
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  • of photon flux, used to measure faint light emitted in the sky, such as airglow and auroras. It was first proposed in 1956 by Donald M. Hunten, Franklin...
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    (aged 59) Uppsala, Sweden Alma mater Uppsala University Known for Spectroscopy Airglow Awards Rumford Medal (1872) Scientific career Fields Physics, Astronomy...
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    (pink area) extends to the orange and faintly green line of the lowest airglow, at about one hundred kilometers at the edge of space and the lower edge...
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    in a low Earth orbit (LEO) at about 400 km (250 mi), with yellow-green airglow visible at Earth's horizon, where roughly at an altitude of 100 km (62 mi)...
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    generated by a fundamentally different mechanism.[citation needed] Airglow "Airglow". www.albany.edu. Retrieved 13 December 2021. Wiberg, Egon; Wiberg...
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    The airglow above the horizon at the atmospheric and orbital boundary to space, captured from the ISS...
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    space applications and habitability. Visible in the background is yellow-green airglow of Earth's ionosphere and the interstellar field of the Milky Way....
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    photography, (3) synoptic weather photography, (4) nuclear emulsions, (5) airglow horizon photography, (6) UV astronomical photography, and (7) dim sky photography...
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    navigation as it did not seem to work as expected. At first he mistook airglow as the real horizon when trying to make some fixes on stars. When the image...
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    November 2010). "Discovery of the FeO orange bands in the terrestrial night airglow spectrum obtained with OSIRIS on the Odin spacecraft". Geophysical Research...
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    identified as the source of the intrinsic brightness of the sky, namely airglow, indirect scattering of sunlight, scattering of starlight, and artificial...
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    characterized the atmosphere, both by emissions of atmospheric molecules (airglow), and by dimming of background stars as they pass behind Pluto (occultation)...
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    Natural light sources in a night sky include moonlight, starlight, and airglow, depending on location and timing. Aurorae light up the skies above the...
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  • the mesopause, they produce light, a phenomenon known as airglow. AWE will observe this airglow in infrared, with its location at the ISS allowing global...
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  • (13 December 2022). "SA24B-04 - ROKITS: Space-borne Wide-field Auroral/Airglow Imager". AGU. Retrieved 15 December 2022. "Revisión de hitos constructivos...
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