Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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UN IVERS IT Y OF CA LI FOR N I A
LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABOltATOllY
(CoNnACT W-740S•BNG-36)
P.O. Box 1663
LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO
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JUL I 7 1962
Dr. Jocelyn Gill
Room 62033
Federal Office Bldg. No. 6
Headquarters, N.A.S.A.
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Dear Dr. Gill:
-The June 29 issue of Science brought to my attention J. H. Glenn's comments
on "The High layer~'. It seemed possible that the layer he described could be
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accounted for as a region of relatively large nitrogen peroxide (N02 ) concentration,
and the past two weeks have been spent in checking this hypothesis • Unfortunately
I am not familiar with either photochemistry or upper atmosphere physics so the
following analysis leaves much to be desired; the hypothesis seems tenable, however,
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so I would like to bring it to your attention.
Effective path length and comparison with possible surface observations.
Referring to Figure 1, the height (H) of a point at a distance (L) from a point
on the surface of a sphere of radius (R) can be found from the formula
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which has the solution
(2)