Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996dps....28.0223s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #02.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1062
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Twenty years have passed since the two Viking Landers photographed the surface of Mars. A third camera is now ready to be launched this December and will land on the outflow plane of Ares Valles on July 4, 1997. IMP is a multi-spectral, stereo imager with approximately the same spatial resolution as the Viking cameras; however, its 12 mineralogical filters have the capability to return high quality, hyperspectral image cubes of the terrain surrounding the Lander and 8 atmospheric filters will image the Sun from zenith to horizon to measure the optical depth of the atmospheric haze. Some of the atmospheric filters are in the 940 nm water band and will attempt to measure the humidity. Standing 1.4 m above the martian surface the local horizon is about 3 km away giving spatial resolutions from 1 mm to 3 m per pixel as the camera points from the closest soil to the furthest boulder. Since October of 1995 IMP has undergone a thorough calibration, these data are now ready to be presented to the scientific community and will be submitted to the PDS archiving system later this Winter. A relevant selection of the calibration results will be shown along with several images. True color composites and false color sets geared to emphasize specific mineral types are examples of the data products that will be returned from Mars. Stereo pairs and the rangefinding capability of IMP will be demonstrated.
Britt Dan
Burkland M.
Chabot Nicolas
Crowe Devon G.
Friedman Timur
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