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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 CaF2 filter-corrector with a passband of 123 to 160 nm.
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Source https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16717066
Author Apollo 16 astronauts
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