Sentences with phrase «from airglow»

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Airglow noticeably dims when the sun is relatively quiescent, as is the case from now through 2007.

From 240 miles above Earth's surface, lightning is visible as bright blotches, and city lights appear as yellow streaks; the atmosphere glows in bands of yellow, green, and red as energetic air molecules interact and emit light, a process (called airglow) that is difficult to see from the groFrom 240 miles above Earth's surface, lightning is visible as bright blotches, and city lights appear as yellow streaks; the atmosphere glows in bands of yellow, green, and red as energetic air molecules interact and emit light, a process (called airglow) that is difficult to see from the grofrom the ground.

Fundamental experimental data were derived from the observations of airglows by the Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM) instrument on - board Mars Express: while NO is useful to constrain dynamics around the 100 km level (Gagné et al. 2013), CO and CO2 + UV emissions allow the direct monitoring of the efficiency of ionization processes (Stiepen et al. 2015).

There's still some debate though as to whether Steve is a true aurora, or perhaps a form of airglow, which results from the upper atmosphere releasing a tiny amount of light as it is warmed by the sun and the Earth's surface.