SPICAM on Mars Express: Observing modes and overview of UV spectrometer data and scientific results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Bertaux, Jean Loup ^a,b   Korablev, Oleg ^c   Perrier, Séverine ^a,b   Quémerais, Eric ^a,b   Montmessin, Franck ^a,b   Leblanc, F ^a,b   Lebonnois, S ^d   Rannou, P ^a   Lefevre F ^a   Forget, F ^d   Fedorova, A ^c   Dimarellis, E ^a,b   Reberac, A ^a,b   Fonteyn, D ^e   Chaufray, J Y ^a   Guibert, S ^a,f  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^f Planetarium de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; MARS; OPTIMIZATION; OZONE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPECTROMETER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33845681635     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JE002690     Document Type: Article

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