Spectral Profiling and Imaging (SPI): Extending L.I.F.E. technology for the remote exploration of life in ice caves (R.E.L.I.C.) on Earth and Mars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8152, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Storrie Lombardi, Michael C ^a   Hall, Alex P ^b   Hang, Steven ^b   Lyzenga, Gregory A ^b   Clark, Christopher M ^b   Sattler, Birgit I ^a,c   Bej, Asim K ^d   Hoover, Richard B ^e  

^a Kinohi Institute   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Cryosphere; Epifluorescence Imaging; Epifluorescence spectroscopy; Extremophiles; Mars; Raman Spectroscopy; Robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; CRYOSPHERE; EPI-FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; EPIFLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTREMOPHILES; MARS;

CAVES; FLUORESCENCE; ICE CONTROL; INSTRUMENTS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ICE;

EID: 80054702343     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.916987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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