Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions

Details Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions

Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002spie.4835..110s&link_type=abstract

Future Research Direction and Visions for Astronomy. Edited by Dressler, Alan M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4835, pp. 11

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

1

Scientific paper

In the coming decades, astronomical breakthroughs will increasingly come from observations from the best ground-based locations and from space observatories. At infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths in particular, Antarctica offers site conditions that are found nowhere else on earth. There are two implications of this. First, for tackling some of the most crucial problems in astrophysics, a large telescope in Antarctica can outperform any other ground-based facility. Second, with infrared backgrounds between one and two orders of magnitude below those at other sites, superior sub-mm transmission and extraordinary low atmospheric turbulence above the boundary layer, Antartical offers designers of space missions a unique test-bed for their ideas and instrumentation.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Anarctica as a launchpad for space astronomy missions will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1194216