Abstract
The optical glow induced by spacecraft‐environment interaction under daytime conditions is analyzed using photometric data obtained by the Visible Airglow Experiment on board the Atmosphere Explorer Satellite. Because of the increased ambient oxygen density, the glow is more intense in the daytime. The daytime production efficiency, measured in Rayleighs per oxygen atom, is similar to the nighttime value. No dependence of the glow intensity on the ambient plasma density was found. The production efficiency increased with time throughout the duration of the spacecraft in orbit.
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