Development of an extreme ultraviolet imaging spectrometer for the mercury mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5193, Issue , 2004, Pages 164-171

  Yoshikawa, Ichiro ^a   Murachi, Tetsunori ^a   Kameda, Shingo ^a   Yamazaki, Atsushi ^b   Okano, Shoichi ^c   Nakamura, Masato ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EUV; Multi layer grating; Planetary atmospheres; Spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; IONOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); OPTIMIZATION; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EUV; MULTI-LAYER GRATINGS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES;

ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 1942422198     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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