Some results of SKYLAB experiment S063
Abstract
Photographs were made from Skylab of auroras that resulted from an intense solar flare. The vertical profiles show in color the altitude distribution of emissions from the different particle-excited atmospheric constituents. Two thin, diffuse layers at average altitudes of 100 and 120 km were observed. The upper layer was of auroral origin, but the lower layer exhibited characteristics of airglow as well as those of auroras.
- Publication:
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Scientific investigations on the Skylab Satellite
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976skls.conf..211P
- Keywords:
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- Auroras;
- Skylab Program;
- Solar Activity Effects;
- Solar Flares;
- Spaceborne Photography;
- Airglow;
- Atmospheric Physics;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Color Photography;
- Molecular Excitation;
- Particle Emission;
- Spatial Distribution;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Solar Physics