A set of laboratory analogue materials for the MERTIS instrument on the ESA BepiColombo mission to Mercury

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 272-279

  Helbert, J ^a   Moroz, L V ^a,b   Maturilli, A ^a   Bischoff, A ^b   Warell, J ^c   Sprague, A ^d   Palomba, E ^e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analogue materials; BepiColombo; Emittance; IR spectroscopy; MESSENGER

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; LUNAR MISSIONS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; SAMPLING; SPACE RESEARCH;

ANALOGUE MATERIALS; BEPICOLOMBO;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 34547134515     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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