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experiment operated by the astronauts aboard the shuttle. Also, MEIDEX accomplished diverse secondary science objectives by performing slant visibility observations, sea-surface reflectivity observations, desert surface observations and observations of Transient Luminous Events, better known as
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ST9385AG 2.5" hard drive with 400 MB storage capacity, was found and believed to be melted beyond recognition. In 2008, however, a data recovery specialist cleaned the hard drive's storage platters and rebuilt them into a new hard drive. They were able to recover 99% of the data, saving the
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during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Although data was lost in the re-entry, much of the data collected while in space, such as that from MEIDEX, had already been transmitted to ground stations.
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is a compact, flexible device that can be configured to perform custom communications and navigation functions in terrestrial, airborne and space applications.
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in 1997. Once proven over a wider range of viewing conditions, the SOLSE-2 technique was incorporated to routinely measure ozone by the next generation of
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The primary mission of the MEIDEX payload was to study the temporal and spatial distribution and physical properties of atmospheric desert dust over
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The SEM is made up of 11 separate student experiments from schools across the United States and is the 14th flight of a SEM on the
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The data from the CVX-2 experiment was believed lost in the disaster. The hard drive that carried its data, a
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Multipurpose Equipment Support Structure in the Shuttle's payload bay during the
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The Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 Experiment measures the viscous behavior of
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that demonstrated a new technique to measure the vertical distribution of
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in the atmosphere. The first demonstration flight of SOLSE-1 was on
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Israelevich, P. L.; Joseph, J. H.; Levin, Z.; Yair, Y. (2009).
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The SOLCON instrument is designed to accurately measure the
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sprites. MEIDEX also made the first space observation of a
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Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science Technology
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Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment-02 (SOLSE-02)
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Index

MEIDEX

GetAway Special canisters
Space Shuttle Columbia
Hitchhiker
STS-107
disintegration of Columbia

Israel Space Agency
NASA
North Africa
Mediterranean
Saharan
remote sensing
glory
SOLSE-2
hyperspectral imaging
spectrometer
Goddard Space Flight Center
ozone
STS-87
weather satellites
Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite
xenon
Seagate
solar constant
solar cycle
irradiance
perturbations
Earth

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