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STS099-349-2
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Airglow: The thin greenish band above the horizon is airglow; radiation emitted by the atmosphere from a layer about 30 km thick and about 100 km altitude. The predominant emission in airglow is the green 5577 Angstrom wavelength emission from atomic oxygen atoms, which is also the predominant emission from the aurora.

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