Photography of the Earth's Cloud Satellites from an Aircraft
C. Wolff 1,
L. Dunkelman 1, and
L. C. Haughney 2
1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
2 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Under astronomically favorable circumstances, photographs do not reveal excess light near the triangular libration points of the earth-moon system. We find that the visible surface brightness of anomalous dust populations, if these populations do exist, is less than 10-9 candela per square centimeter.