A neutral gas mass spectrometer for the investigation of lunar volatiles

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 264-269

  Wurz, P ^a   Abplanalp, D ^a   Tulej, M ^a   Lammer, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION LIMITS; DYNAMIC RANGE; GAS SAMPLES; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HISTOGRAMMING; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; MASS RESOLUTION; MASS SPECTRA; NEUTRAL GAS; NUMBER DENSITY; PLANETARY MISSION; PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT; PULSED SYSTEMS; ROBUST MECHANICAL DESIGN; SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEM RECORDS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; TOTAL PRESSURE;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INSTRUMENTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOON; SPACE RESEARCH;

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84870795853     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.05.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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