Planetary Exploration Capabilities Enabled by the MIDAS Concept

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May 2004

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #P33D-10

Physics

0394 Instruments And Techniques

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The Multiple Instrument Distributed Aperture Sensor (MIDAS) concept provides a large-aperture, wide-field, diffraction-limited telescope at a fraction of the cost, mass and volume of traditional space telescopes. By integrating optical interferometry technologies into a mature multiple aperture array concept, MIDAS capabilities fulfil the need for advancing future planetary science remote sensing on missions such as the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO). MIDAS acts as a single front-end remote sensing science payload for multiple missions, reducing the cost, resources, complexity, and risks with a set of back-end science instruments (SI's) tailored to each specific mission. MIDAS enables either sequential or concurrent SI operations in all functional modes, such as passive imaging by any one SI or multispectral imaging by all SI's concurrently. In its active remote sensing modes using an integrated laser source, MIDAS enables LIDAR, vibrometry, illumination, ablation, and various laser spectroscopies. MIDAS inherently provides nanometer-resolution hyperspectral imaging to help determine the geochemistry of planetary surface materials without the need for any moving parts in the SI's. The MIDAS optical design enables high-resolution spectral imaging at high-altitude with long dwell times, enabling real-time wide-area long-duration remote sensing of active processes on the planet surface. The powerful combination of MIDAS passive and active imaging capabilities, each with sequential or concurrent SI operational modes, significantly increases the potential return for future planetary science missions.

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