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Lyman-Alpha Photometer

    The Lyman-alpha photometer was a French-Soviet experiment intended to measure interplanetary Lyman-alpha emissions during trans-Mars coast and to measure atomic hydrogen in the Martian atmosphere. The instrument performed normally and returned good data.