The mercury laser altimeter instrument for the MESSENGER mission

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 131, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 451-479

  Cavanaugh, John F ^a   Smith, James C ^a   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Bartels, Arlin E ^a   Ramos Izquierdo, Luis ^a   Krebs, Danny J ^a   McGarry, Jan F ^a   Trunzo, Raymond ^b   Novo Gradac, Anne Marie ^a   Britt, Jamie L ^a   Karsh, Jerry ^a   Katz, Richard B ^a   Lukemire, Alan T ^c   Szymkiewicz, Richard ^b   Berry, Daniel L ^a   Swinski, Joseph P ^a   Neumann, Gregory A ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^d   Smith, David E ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Orbital Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser altimeter; Mercury; MESSENGER; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ECHO PULSE ENERGY; LASER ALTIMETER; MERCURY LASER ALTIMETER (MLA); SURFACE REFLECTIVITY;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 36849081515     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-007-9273-4     Document Type: Article

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