airglow in a sentence
Examples
- Airglow was designed with an all-flying rudder and elevator for yaw and pitch, plus rotating wing tips for lateral stability.
- Huestis says Earth's airglow is " about one-fourth as bright as the Milky Way ( galaxy ) ."
- Natural illumination is still provided by a combination of moonlight, planetary light, starlight, diffuse zodiacal light, gegenschein, and airglow.
- Airglow is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere, such as the recombination of atoms which were scattered light from the sun.
- Also, the " Pioneer Venus Orbiter " recorded visible airglow at Venus in 1978 strong enough to saturate its star sensor.
- These measurements are performed using passive optical interferometry and photometry of neutral airglow emissions as well as active ISR to characterize the local ionosphere.
- Jupiter's thermosphere is located at pressures lower than 1 ?bar and demonstrates such phenomena as airglow, polar aurorae and X-ray emissions.
- Some of these are instrumental, or due to the presence of the atmosphere ( like the airglow ), in the case of ground based instruments.
- In 1992 Airglow was taken to Germany and flown by Peer Frank ( designer of Velair 88 and Velair 89 ) at the Grob airfield at Mindelheim.
- Note that the contributions from Airglow and Zodiacal light vary with the time of year, the solar cycle, and the observer's latitude roughly as follows: