yThe Mercury sodium atmospheric spectral imager for the MMO spacecraft of Bepi-Colombo

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 224-237

  Yoshikawa, I ^a   Korablev, O ^b   Kameda, S ^c   Rees, D ^d   Nozawa, H ^e   Okano, S ^f   Gnedykh, V ^b   Kottsov, V ^b   Yoshioka, K ^a   Murakami, G ^a   Ezawa, F ^a   Cremonese, G ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Hovemere Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e KAGOSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

BC mission; Fabry Perot interferometer; Mercury's exosphere

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; DISK IMAGES; FABRY-PEROT ETALONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; INTERPLANETARY SPACE; LONG-TERM AGING; MAGNETOSPHERIC ORBITERS; MERCURY EXOSPHERE; MERCURY'S EXOSPHERE; NARROWBAND INTERFERENCE FILTERS; PLANETARY SURFACES; RAYLEIGH; SCANNING MIRROR; SINGLE-AXIS; SPECTRAL REGION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMALLY STABLE; VISIBLE SPECTROMETERS;

ETALONS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FADING (RADIO); FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SODIUM; SOLAR WIND; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 73749084747     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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