Email this article Atmospheric Emission Layers according to Photographic Observations from the International Space Station
- Authors: Platov Y.V.1, Koutchmy S.2, Nikolayshvili S.S.3
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université
- Institute of Applied Geophysics
- Issue: Vol 59, No 3 (2019)
- Pages: 351-355
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0016-7932/article/view/157544
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793219030113
- ID: 157544
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Abstract
Photographic and video observations made by astronaut Thomas Pesquet (European Space Agency) during the 51st expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) contain a series of color images of the emission and scattering layers of the Earth’s atmosphere under night and twilight conditions. The stars of various constellations can be clearly seen in the atmosphere images above the limb of the Earth. This makes it possible to accurately determine the geometric parameters of the emission layers and the conditions of their illumination by the Sun. A model is proposed to explain the blue glow of the thin atmospheric layer near the horizon resulting from the Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in the lower layers of the atmosphere.
About the authors
Yu. V. Platov
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: yplatov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
S. Koutchmy
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université
Author for correspondence.
Email: koutchmy@iap.fr
France, Paris
S. Sh. Nikolayshvili
Institute of Applied Geophysics
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Email: ser58ge@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
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