NASA Photo ID: S89-44182           File Name: 10063723.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 09/11/89
  Title: Artist concept of STS-34 SSBUV in orbit calibration
  Description:
  Artist concept titled SSBUV IN ORBIT CALIBRATION shows how the shuttle
  solar  backscatter ultraviolet (UV) (SSBUV) instrument will calibrate ozone 
  measuring space-based instruments on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
  Administration's (NOAA's) TIROS satellites NOAA-9 and NOAA-11.  During 
  STS-34, SSBUV instruments mounted in get away special (GAS) canisters in 
  Atlantis', Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104's, payload bay will use the Space 
  Shuttle's orbital flight path to assess instrument performance by directly 
  comparing data from identical instruments aboard the TIROS satellite, as 
  OV-104 and the satellite pass over the same Earth location within a
  one-hour  window.  SSBUV is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
  (GSFC).   Alternate number on image is E66.001.           
  
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  CALIBRATING                             
  GET AWAY SPECIALS (STS)                 
  SOLAR BACKSCATTER UV SPECTROMETER       
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-34                                  
  TIROS SATELLITES                        
  VISUAL AIDS                             
  

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