HALOE Looking at the Sun

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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The Halogen Occultation Experiment, HALOE, was designed to carefully monitor hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen chloride, byproducts of CFC destruction in the stratosphere. HALOE operates by observing the absorption of infrared radiation by these molecules against the rising and setting sun.

HALOE observing the sun at the limb of the Earth

Video slate image reads, "The Upper Atmosphere Research SatelliteAnimationsUARS Instrument HALOE observing the Sun over the limb".

Video slate image reads, "The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
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UARS Instrument HALOE observing the Sun over the limb".

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Friday, April 9, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.

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