In-Flight performance of MESSENGER's Mercury dual imaging system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7441, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hawkins, S Edward ^a   Murchie, Scott L ^a   Becker, Kris J ^c   Selby, Christina M ^a   Turner, F Scott ^a   Noble, Matthew W ^a   Chabot, Nancy L ^a   Choo, Teck H ^a   Darlington, Edward H ^a   Denevi, Brett W ^b   Domingue, Deborah L ^a   Ernst, Carolyn M ^a   Holsclaw, Gregory M ^d   Laslo, Nori R ^a   Mcclintock, William E ^d   Prockter, Louise M ^a   Robinson, Mark S ^b   Solomon, Sean C ^e   Sterner, Raymond E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imager; MDIS; Mercury; MESSENGER

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE DETECTORS; DUAL IMAGING; FIELD OF VIEWS; FOCAL PLANES; HIGHLY ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; IMAGER; IMAGERS; IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; IN-FLIGHT TESTS; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; MDIS; MERCURY; MERCURY SURFACE; MESSENGER; MULTI-SPECTRAL; ORBITAL MISSIONS; PHASE CHANGES; SLOW ROTATION; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; THERMAL DESIGNS; THERMAL RESERVOIR; WIDE-ANGLE CAMERA;

ASTROBIOLOGY; CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; ION BEAMS; ORBITS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 70449489671     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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