ALICE: The ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard the New Horizons Pluto mission spacecraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5906, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Stern, S Alan ^a   Scherrer, John ^b   Slater, David C ^b   Gladstone, G R ^b   Dirks, Greg ^b   Stone, John ^b   Davis, Michael ^b   Versteeg, Maarten ^b   Siegmund, O H W ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Sensor Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Charon; Kuiper belt objects; New horizons; Pluto; UV spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHARON; KUIPER BELT OBJECTS; NEW HORIZONS; PLUTO;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; COMPOSITION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOON; PLANETS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROGRAPHS; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 29844432489     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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