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The LITE orbit tracks grouped by Mission Day are listed below Orbit Selection Table.

See an example of a LITE color image below.

Select An Orbit from the Orbit Selection Table.
355 nm 532 nm 1064 nm

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15 15 15 22 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 24
27 27 27 28 28 28 32 32 32 33 33 33
34 34 34 35 35 35 45 45 45 47 47 47
48 48 48 50 50 50 53 53 53 54 54 54
55 55 55 60 60 60 66 66 66 71 71 71
72 72 72 73 73 73 74 74 74 75 75 75
78 78 78 79 79 79 80 80 80 81 81 81
82 82 82 83 83 83 84 84 84 85 85 85
87 87 87 103 103 103 104 104 104 105 105 105
113 113 113 115 115 115 116 116 116 117 117 117
118 118 118 119 119 119 122 122 122 123 123 123
124 124 124 125 125 125 127 127 127 128 128 128
129 129 129 131 131 131 133 133 133 134 134 134
135 135 135 136 136 136 137 137 137 141 141 141
145 145 145 146 146 146 147 147 147 148 148 148
149 149 149 150 150 150

LITE orbit tracks by Mission Day.


Above is displayed a color-modulated plot of LITE Level 1 532 nm profile data over the Sahara during orbit 146 at approximately 23 GMT on September 18, 1994. (Click on panel to view an expanded and annotated version of the image.) The image displays 5 minutes of LITE data.

The color assigned to each pixel represents the intensity of the return signal. The color bar displayed below shows the color assigned to each range of measured signal returns in digitizer counts. The count values range from zero for no return to a value less than 4000 for the strongest return.

Prominently featured at the start of this orbit transect is the Atlas Mountain range near 31N, 8W. This mountain range approximately separates a more optically thick aerosol air mass to the southeast from a relatively cleaner air mass to the northwest.

Over the desert interior, the aerosol plume extends in altitude to about 5 km with complex aerosol structures embedded within the mixed layer. The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) extends southeast until it is obscured by the optically thick clouds associated with the InterTropical Convergence Zone.

Over the Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the Atlas Mountains, a considerably weaker aerosol layer is seen extending to heights of about 2 km.