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NASA NTRS1974

Active experiments in space in conjunction with Skylab

Two papers are presented which relate to the Skylab barium shaped charge experiments. The first describes the L=6.6 OOSIK barium plasma injection experiment and magnetic storm of March 7, 1972. Rocket payload, instrumentation, data reduction methods, geophysical environment at the time of the experiment, and results are given. The second paper presents the observation of an auroral Birkeland current which developed from the distortion of a barium plasma jet during the above experiment.

Wescott, E. M.↗
NASA NTRS1974

Current system in an auroral substorm

An instrumented sounding rocket was launched at 0040 LT into the expansive phase of an auroral substorm on March 16, 1973, from Poker Flat, Alaska. This report describes coordinated measurements of electric field, magnetic field, and energetic electrons. By comparing the observed magnetic field with that predicted by model currents, a current system, which includes field-aligned currents, is deduced. The model indicates three currents: a southward current, a westward current, and two field-aligned currents. A southward electric field of 60 mV/m identifies the southward current as a Pedersen current and the westward current as a Hall current. The field-aligned current measured from particle detectors shows a structure similar to that in the magnetic model. The total field-aligned electron current measured by particle detectors agrees within 10% of the current model.

Kintner, P. M.↗
NASA NTRS1975

Rocket-borne particle, field, and plasma observations in the cleft region

Results are reported for comprehensive observations of magnetic and electric fields together with ambient and suprathermal plasmas above the dayside auroral oval with rocket-borne instrumentation which penetrated the cleft region. Measurements were also obtained equatorward and poleward of the cleft. Convection velocities as inferred from electric-field measurements were generally toward noon equatorward of the cleft and were antisunward over the polar cap. Observations of electron temperatures, electric fields, and low-frequency electrostatic noise provide strong evidence of a plasma instability (Farley-Buneman) in the E-layer associated with the appearance of the 'slant E condition' identified in ground-acquired ionograms. The positions of these measurements relative to that of the cleft were firmly established via the determination of the plasma environment with an electrostatic analyzer.

Ungstrup, E.↗
NASA NTRS1976

Long-term infrared monitoring of stellar sources from earth orbit

A program is discussed which involved monitoring the photometric activity of 18 bright variable IR stars at 2.7 microns with satellite- and rocket-borne instrumentation in the period from 1971 to 1975. The stellar sample includes 3 Lb variables, 8 semiregular variables, 5 Mira-type variables, and 2 previously unknown and unclassified IR variables. Detailed light curves of many of these stars were determined for intervals of 3 yr or more; spectra from 2.7 to 20 microns were constructed for nine of them using data obtained entirely with instruments above the atmosphere. Photometric IR light curves and other data are presented for SW Virginis, R Aquilae, S Scuti, IRC 00265, RT Hydrae, S Orionis, S Canis Minoris, Omicron Ceti, and R Leonis. Several hypotheses concerning the interpretation of the IR data are examined.

Maran, S. P.↗
NASA NTRS1976

The calibration of photographic and spectrographic films

Certain techniques and procedures are developed and evaluated for the ascertainment of the relative spectral-photometric characteristics of standard and special spectroscopic films and plates in the visible and UV regions. These films are used in ground based and rocket launched instruments. Two photographic spectral sensitometers were developed. One instrument is a vacuum sensitometer covering a range of 1,000 to 3,000 Angstroms and the other sensitometer is the device this investigator used to study its spectral responses in the visible region of the spectrum through the utilization of a computer microdensitometric and photometric plot and contour routines.

Hammond, E. C., Jr.↗
NASA NTRS1976

Far-ultraviolet albedo of the moon

The albedo and photometric function of the moon have been measured between 121.6 and 168.0 nm by comparing the brightness of the moon, observed with an orbiting far-ultraviolet spectrometer during the Apollo 17 mission, to the solar brightness observed simultaneously from a sounding rocket. The instruments were carefully cross-calibrated. In contrast to what is found in the visible and the near ultraviolet, the brightness of the moon is found to increase toward shorter wavelengths; the moon is 'blue' in the far ultraviolet. This is confirmed by a laboratory study of lunar samples. A brief review of lunar albedo measurements in the 120-600-nm range is given.

Lucke, R. L.↗