Apollo_16_UV_photo_of_Earth_rotated.jpg

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Description	English: UV photo of Earth taken by Apollo 16 with the Far UV Camera/Spectrograph. AS16-123-19657. A version of this photo was used in Figure 13-7 of the Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-315), which has the following caption: Frame 45, the Earth, target 2M, 10-min ICa exposure, showing the overexposed polar aurora and two equatorial airglow belts. "ICa" means imagery through a CaF ₂ filter-corrector with a passband of 123 to 160 nm.
Date	21 April 1972
Source	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16717066
Author	Apollo 16 astronauts
Other versions	Apollo16EarthID.gif

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