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Midcourse Space Experiment: Introduction to the Spacecraft, Instruments, and Scientific Objectives

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In this article, Mill et al. discuss the effects of environmental pollution on the environment and propose an approach to mitigate the environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions in the air and water.
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John D. Mill* Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Arlington, Virginia 22209 Robert R. O'Neil* and Stephan Price* U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory, HanscomAFB, Massachusetts 01731 Gerald J. Romick and O. Manuel Uy Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723 E. M. Gaposchkin** Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173 Glenn C. Light The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, California 90009-2970 W. Walding Moore Jr.** U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, Huntsville, Alabama 35807-3801 Thomas L. Murdock General Research Corporation, Danvers, Massachusetts 01923 and A. T. Stair Jr. Visidyne, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803

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Spectral Irradiance Calibration in the Infrared. X. A Self-Consistent Radiometric All-Sky Network of Absolutely Calibrated Stellar Spectra

TL;DR: In this article, the authors start from six absolutely calibrated continuous stellar spectra from 1.2 to 35?m for K0, K1.5, K3, K5, and M0 giants, and normalize each template by photometry for the individual stars using published and/or newly secured near and mid-infrared photometry obtained through fully characterized, absolutely calibrated, combinations of filter passband, detector radiance response, and mean terrestrial atmospheric transmission.
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Midcourse Space Experiment Survey of the Galactic Plane

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a panoramic image of the entire Galactic plane within 5° in four mid-infrared spectral bands between 6 and 25 μm at a spatial resolution of ~183, which was redundant within |b| ≤ 45 with fourfold coverage over two-thirds of the area.
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A Population of Cold Cores in the Galactic Plane

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find dense (n > 105 cm−3), cold (T < 20 K) cores, without accompanying envelopes, in a 1° × 180° scan along the Galactic equator.
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The Physical Properties of the Midcourse Space Experiment Galactic Infrared-dark Clouds

TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of 10 of these MSX dark clouds using millimeter-wave molecular rotational lines as an indicator of dense molecular gas were detected in millimeter spectral lines of H2CO, which confirms the presence of dense gas.
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The Origin of the Magellanic Stream and its Leading Arm

TL;DR: The Magellanic Stream (MS) using a Gaussian decomposition of the H I velocity proles in the Leiden-Argentine-Bonn (LAB) all-sky H I survey was explored in this paper.
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Description of SHARC: The Strategic High-Altitude Radiance Code.

TL;DR: The Strategic High-Altitude Radiance Code (SHARC) as discussed by the authors is a new computer code that calculates atmospheric radiation and transmittance for paths from 60 to 300 km altitude in the 2-40 microns spectral region.
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Contamination experiments in the Midcourse Space Experiment satellite

TL;DR: The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite is a space-based sensor platform primarily designed to collect data on the phenomenology of target detection and tracking as mentioned in this paper, and a suite of contamination monitoring instruments are also included in the satellite.
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CEDAR: An aeronomy initiative

TL;DR: A 3-year process of committee deliberations and community-wide annual workshops by scientists involved in aeronomical studies has led recently to the presentation of a final report to the National Science Foundation, outlining a comprehensive 7-year plan for the ground-based study of the earth's upper atmosphere.
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Space-based visible surveillance experiment

TL;DR: A small visible-band sensor, built by Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be flown as part of a sensor ensemble on the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite, an SDIO program as discussed by the authors.
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Strategic Scene Generation Model: baseline and operational software

TL;DR: The SSGM design architecture, the software modules and databases which are used to create scene elements, the synthesis of deterministic and/or stochastic structured scene elements into composite scenes, theSoftware system to manage the various databases and digital image libraries, and verification and validation by comparison with empirical data are described.
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