The Mars-96 PGS Germanium Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..885m&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 885

Computer Science

Composition: Martian, Composition: Surface, Mars, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy: Gamma-Ray

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MARS-96 is a Russian planetary mission scheduled for a launch in November 1996. MARS-96 will arrive at Mars in late 1997 and have a nominal lifetime of 2.5 years in an elliptical polar orbit around Mars. Its pericenter altitude above Mars will be about 300 km. The primary objective of the MARS-96 mission is planetary studies of Mars. One of the instruments on MARS-96 is the precision gamma-ray spectrometer (PGS), which has two high-purity n-type germanium (Ge) detectors, each similar to the one used on the Mars Observer mission. The Ge detectors are cooled by a passive radiator, and the detectors and radiator are mounted on a deployment mechanism behind a solar panel. The PGS experiment will measure gamma-ray emissions from the martian surface, cosmic gamma-ray bursts, and the high-energy component of solar flares in the broad energy range from about 50 keV to 8 MeV in 4096 energy channels. Its primary objective is to map the martian surface's elemental composition using nuclear gamma-ray lines.

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