SPEX: The spectropolarimeter for planetary EXploration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Snik, Frans ^a   Rietjens, Jeroen H H ^b   Van Harten, Gerard ^a   Stam, Daphne M ^b   Keller, Christoph U ^a   Smit, J Martijn ^b   Laan, Erik C ^c   Verlaan, Ad L ^c   Ter Horst, Rik ^d   Navarro, Ramòn ^d   Wielinga, Klaas ^e   Moon, Scott G ^f   Voors, Robert ^g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^e Mecon Engineering BV   (Netherlands)

^f Cosine ^*  (Netherlands)

^g AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Dust; Mars; Spectropolarimetry

Indexed keywords

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

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); INSTRUMENTS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLARIZATION; SPACE TELESCOPES; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

DUST;

EID: 77958138715     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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