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The UV Atmosphere (MINI-EUSO) Experiment: A Wide-Field-of-View Lens Telescope on Board the ISS

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The Mini-EUSO detector was delivered on board the International Space Station in 2019 as part of the UV Atmosphere space experiment. The device was designed and manufactured by the international JEM-EUSO collaboration and is a prototype of the K-EUSO fluorescent orbital ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detector. Twenty-six sessions of the experiment were conducted over 1 year of the equipment’s operation on board the ISS. Slow variations in UV fluorescence were recorded (cloud cover and anthropogenic sources) as well as lightning discharges, transient high-atmosphere phenomena of thunderstorm origin, and meteors. A number of unusual UV flashes with durations of around 150 μs were recorded, the nature of which remains unclear.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by State Corporation Roscosmos with the participation of the JEM-EUSO collaboration. It is based on materials from research conducted in the UV Atmosphere space experiment on board the Russian module of the ISS.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Klimov, P.A. The UV Atmosphere (MINI-EUSO) Experiment: A Wide-Field-of-View Lens Telescope on Board the ISS. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 85, 389–391 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821040171

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