SP-404 Skylab's Astronomy and Space Sciences

Figure 6-9. The Earth's limb in the ultraviolet. The center (A) is the occulting disk covering the Sun. The illuminated Earth (B) shows the atmosphere as ill-defined edge. The crescent shape (C) above it is an instrumental artifact.

Figure 6-9. The Earth's limb in the ultraviolet. The center (A) is the occulting disk covering the Sun. The illuminated Earth (B) shows the atmosphere as ill-defined edge. The crescent shape (C) above it is an instrumental artifact.

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