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Science 1 September 1972:
Vol. 177. no. 4051, pp. 788 - 791
DOI: 10.1126/science.177.4051.788
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Apollo 16 Far-Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph: Earth Observations

George R. Carruthers 1 and Thornton Page 1

1 E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20390

A far-ultraviolet camera/spectograph experiment was operated on the lunar surface during the Apollo 16 mission. Among the data obtained were images and spectra of the terrestrial atmosphere and geocorona in the wavelength range below 1600 angstroms. These gave the spatial distributions and relative intensities of emissions due to atomic hydrogen, atomic oxygen, molecular nitrogen, and other species—some observed spectrographically for the first time.


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