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Measurements of the neutral temperature in the lower thermosphere, using high resolution (0.13 nm) N 2 Lyman‐Birge‐Hopfield (LBH) band emissions are presented. The data were taken by the High‐resolution Ionospheric and Thermospheric Spectrograph (HITS) instrument aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite ( ARGOS ). By fitting the LBH band profiles, temperatures in the thermosphere between ∼150 and 270 km have been retrieved. Temperatures retrieved for three geomagnetically quiet days, 28–30 July 2001 are consistent with temperatures from the Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter (MSIS) model.
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