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Second flight of the Spacelab Grille Spectrometer during the ATLAS‐1 mission
Author(s) -
De Maziere M.,
Muller C.,
Lippens C.,
Vercheval J.,
Fonteyn D.,
Armante R.,
CamyPeyret C.,
Achard V.,
Besson J.,
Marcault J.,
Henry D.,
Papineau N.,
Meyer J. P.,
Frimout D.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/93gl00082
Subject(s) - occultation , atlas (anatomy) , spectrometer , remote sensing , sunset , environmental science , meteorology , physics , astrobiology , space shuttle , astronomy , atmospheric sciences , optics , geology , paleontology
The SPACELAB grille spectrometer on its second space flight during the ATLAS‐1 mission (March 24 ‐ April 2, 1992) took advantage of the favorable timeline and of the extra day to perform more than 65 successful solar occultation runs. It succeeded in obtaining spectra pertinent to its ten target molecules in the full range of altitudes available to the solar infrared occultation technique. These ten molecules are H 2 O, CO, CO 2 , CH 4 , NO, NO 2 , N 2 O, HCl, HF and O 3 . The preliminary analysis of the sunset observation presented here adds new information to the available database on HCl vertical profiles, for assessing long‐term trends of this important stratospheric species.