Photographs taken with the High Altitude Observatory's White Light Coronagraph (Skylab experiment S052) are shown to contain information on the sizes and velocities of contaminant particulates around Skylab. Sizes as small as 5 micrometer (radius) are derived for particles as far away as 200 m from the spacecraft. The random error in the size derivation is about 30 % and no particle larger than 120 micrometer was observed.
Coronagraphic technique to infer the nature of the Skylab particulate environment
Schlussfolgerungen auf die Art der Teilchen in der Umgebung von Skylab mit dem Koronographen
Applied Optics ; 16 , 6 ; 1591-1597
1977
7 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 5 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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