GEO 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Magnetosheath, Geochemistry, Langmuir Probe

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10 successful spacecraft launching from earth to mars. 1999 mars climate orbiter and mars polar lander. 2003 mars express and beagle 2 (european union) Acquires day and night ir and visible images of mars. Determines abundances of roughly 20 elements in the top few meters of the martian regolith. First instrument sent to mars specifically to help prepare for human exploration. Observatoire pour la mineralogi , l"eau, les glaces et l"activit (omega) Mars advanced radar for subsurface and ionosphere sounding. Similar to mgs-tes, but specifically designed to study the atmosphere. Measures interaction between upper atmosphere and solar wind. Spectroscopy for the investigation of the characteristics of the atmosphere of mars (spicam) High resolution imaging science experiment (hirise) 30 cm/pixel! Context camera (ctx) 6 m/pixel supports hirise and crism imaging. Mars color imager (marci) monitors weather, dust, clouds. Each pixel in the image contains 438 colors New, improved version of pmirr, lost on mgs.

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