Accession Number:

AD1166478

Title:

Tiny Remote-sensing Instrument for Thermospheric Oxygen and Nitrogen: A Concept Study

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Memorandum Report]

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Fritz, Bruce

Report Date:

2022-04-07

Pagination or Media Count:

24

Abstract:

The Tiny Remote-sensing Instrument for Thermospheric Oxygen and Nitrogen TRITON is an experiment concept under development at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory NRL for specification of primary components in the Earths lower thermosphere, O and N2, via inversion of Far Ultraviolet FUV dayglow observations. Space-based images of FUV dayglow have been used for several decades to determine quantitative information about the thermosphere, from George Carruthers moon-based FUV telescope 1 and the Dynamics Explorer 2 imager 2 to some of the most recent NASA missions like the Ionospheric Connections ICON Explorer 3 and the Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk GOLD Mission. 4

Descriptors:

• detectors
• spacecraft orbits
• measurement
• space sciences
• electron density
• low earth orbits
• remote sensing
• space weather
• spacecraft
• data reduction
• electrons
• specifications
• artificial satellites
• bandpass filters
• emission
• engineering
• meteorological satellites

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology
• Unmanned Spacecraft

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]