Mars laser hygrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4436-4445

  Webster, Christopher R ^a   Flesch, Gregory J ^a   Mansour, Kamjou ^a   Haberle, Robert ^b   Bauman, Jill ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYGROMETERS; INSULATION; LASERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TESTING; THERMOELECTRICITY;

PASCAL LASER HYGROMETERS; PRECISION SENSITIVITIES; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUNABLE DIODE LASERS (TDL);

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043086518     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004436     Document Type: Article

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