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EXPERIMENT - APOLLO 16 (UV)
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S72-40821 (21 April 1972) --- An artificially reproduced color enhancement of a ten-minute far-ultraviolet exposure of Earth, taken with a filter which blocks the glow caused by atomic hydrogen but which transmits the glow caused by atomic oxygen and molecular nitrogen. Note that airglow emission bands are visible on the night side of Earth, one roughly centered between the two polar auroral zones and one at an angle to this extending northward toward the sunlit side of Earth.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEXPERIMENT - APOLLO 16 (UV). NASA/JSC, 1972-06-06. Public domain. ID: S72-40821.
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