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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2024, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 359-371

Study of the proper night glow of the atmospheres of Earth and Mars in different bands of molecular oxygen using remote sensing from space

O.V. Antonenko 1 , A.S. Kirillov 1 
1 Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity, Murmansk Region, Russia
Accepted: 18.11.2024
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2024-21-6-359-371
This paper presents the results of theoretical calculations of the glow of excited molecular oxygen (O2) in the night sky of the atmospheres of the Earth and Mars. The profiles of the concentrations of atomic oxygen (O) at middle latitudes of the Earth (55.7° N), in the equatorial region and in Northern tropics (23.5° N) are presented. The temperature profiles used in the calculations were obtained from long-term (1960–2000) measurements at altitudes of 30–110 km. For the nitrogen (N2) and O2 concentration profiles, data from the MSIS-90 (Mass Spectrometer – Incoherent Scatter, 1990) model were used. Also, the O altitude profiles for the Martian atmosphere are presented for the equatorial latitude; for the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and temperature profiles, data were used according to the General Circulation Model (GCM) of the French Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique — LMD), called LMD-MGCM. The values of the glow intensities of the Herzberg I, Chamberlain and Atmospheric bands at mid-latitudes and in the equatorial zone of the Earth, as well as for the equatorial zone of Mars, were calculated. The calculations were performed using experimental data on the concentrations of atomic oxygen for the indicated latitudes of the planets. The correlation of the results of these calculations with experimental data on the O2 night glow on Earth obtained from the space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery, is discussed. It is shown that there is good agreement between the theoretical calculations and the experimental data for the considered latitudes of the Earth.
Keywords: molecular oxygen, glow intensity, Herzberg and Chamberlain bands, Atmospheric bands, mid-latitudes, equatorial zone, space transport system, correlation of results
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