Commissioning and in-flight calibration results of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LRO/LAMP) UV imaging spectrograph

Michael W. Davis; G. Randall Gladstone; Maarten H. Versteeg; Thomas K. Greathouse; S. Alan Stern; Joel Wm. Parker; Andrew J. Steffl; Kurt D. Retherford; David C. Slater

doi:10.1117/12.894282

14 September 2011 Commissioning and in-flight calibration results of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LRO/LAMP) UV imaging spectrograph

Michael W. Davis, G. Randall Gladstone, Maarten H. Versteeg, Thomas K. Greathouse, S. Alan Stern, Joel Wm. Parker, Andrew J. Steffl, Kurt D. Retherford, David C. Slater

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Proceedings Volume 8146, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts V; 814603 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894282
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

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The Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) is a lightweight (6.1 kg), low-power (4.5 W), ultraviolet spectrograph based on the Alice instruments now in flight aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Its primary job on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is to identify and localize exposed water frost in permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the Moon's poles, and to characterize landforms and albedos in PSRs. In this paper we describe the in-flight radiometric performance and commissioning results and compare them to ground calibration measurements.

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Michael W. Davis, G. Randall Gladstone, Maarten H. Versteeg, Thomas K. Greathouse, S. Alan Stern, Joel Wm. Parker, Andrew J. Steffl, Kurt D. Retherford, and David C. Slater "Commissioning and in-flight calibration results of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LRO/LAMP) UV imaging spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 8146, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts V, 814603 (14 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894282

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