SPEX: An in-orbit spectropolarimeter for planetary exploration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7010, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Snik, Frans ^a   Karalidi, Theodora ^a   Keller, Christoph ^a   Laan, Erik ^b   Ter Horst, Rik ^c   Navarro, Ramon ^c   Stam, Daphne ^d,f   Aas, Christina ^d   De Vries, Johan ^e   Oomen, Gijs ^e   Hoogeveen, Ruud ^f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^f SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Dust; Mars; Spectropolarimetry

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; CLOUD PARTICLES; ENTRANCE PUPIL; FLIGHT DIRECTION; GLOBAL VIEW; GROUND PIXELS; HIGH PRECISION; ICE CLOUDS; IN-ORBIT; INCOMING LIGHT; INTENSITY SPECTRUM; LIMB-VIEWING; LINEAR POLARIZATION; MARS; MARTIAN DUST; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MOVING PARTS; MULTIPLE-ORDER RETARDERS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; POLARIZATION SCATTERING; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; QUARTER WAVES; SINGLE-INTENSITY; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; SPECTROPOLARIMETERS; SPECTROPOLARIMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; DUST; ELLIPSOMETRY; INSTRUMENTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE TELESCOPES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 63049091913     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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