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The Naval Research Laboratory’s Far Ultraviolet Cameras experiment m on space shuttle mission STS-39 in April-May, 1991) and Far Ultra- it Imaging Spectrograph (FUVIS), flown as the Spartan-204 payload on -63 in February, 1995, were primarily intended to study diffuse sources,r-UV radiation, including those due to the interstellar medium (dust- tered starlight and gas-phase emissions, including molecular hydrogen:escence). Among results of the Far UV Cameras was imagery of a very nsive reflection nebulosity in the upper Scorpius region, including Rho iuchi. The FUVIS experiment objectives included an imaging spec- raphic survey of the Orion Nebula and other emission and reflection llae in the wavelength range 97-200 nanometers. The current status of l analysis for the Far UV Cameras and FUVIS observations of inter- ar dust are discussed. Future plans include a new version of the Far Cameras, using electron-bombarded CCD detectors, to be flown on a -duration unmanned Air Force satellite, ARGOS, in 1997. This mis- will obtain all-sky surveys of point and diffuse sources in the 92-105, 160, and 131-200 nm wavelength ranges. Also proposed is a reflight of Spartan-204 FUVIS, and/or a new version of FUVIS as a small long- Ltion satellite payload, also using EBCCD detectors.
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Carruthers, G.R. (1996). Studies of Interstellar Dust and Gas with the Far Ultraviolet Cameras and Far Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph Space Shuttle Investigations. In: Block, D.L., Greenberg, J.M. (eds) New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0335-7_19
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