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The term airglow refers to the hydroxyl radical and atomic oxygen that emits intense light as result of changes in earth’s gravity waves that moves through the atmospheric layers. Detecting these pattern of lights from the airglow can help detect and predict weather and geological events such as tsunamis, thunderstorms, earthquakes and volcanic activity. The team successfully build a miniaturized and comparable instrument that rivals University of Alaska - Fairbank’s all-sky imager, which is much larger in size, while serving the same purpose of detecting and analyzing airglow emission. The team’s instrument is a combination of lenses and filters that is attached to sCMOS camera.
Fun Fact: This is one of the two ground based instrument in USIP. You can place it anywhere as long as it is powered!
Fun Fact: This is one of the two ground based instrument in USIP. You can place it anywhere as long as it is powered!
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Image Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/AirglowFan_Lane_2400.jpg
Image Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/AirglowFan_Lane_2400.jpg