Observations of Mars and its satellites by the Mars Imaging Camera (MIC) on Planet-B

• Mukai Tadashi

  The Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University

• Akabane Tokuhide

  Hida Observatory, Kyoto University

• Hashimoto Tatsuaki

  Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

• Ishimoto Hiroshi

  The Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University

• Sasaki Sho

  Geological Institute, University of Tokyo

• Inada Ai

  The Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University

• Toigo Anthony

  Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

• Nakamura Masato

  Space and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo

• Abe Yutaka

  Space and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo

• Kurita Kei

  Space and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo

• Imamura Takeshi

  Space and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo

抄録

We present the specifications of the Mars Imaging Camera (MIC) on the Planet-B spin-stabilized spacecraft, and key scientific objectives of MIC observations. A non-sun-synchronous orbit of Planet-B with a large eccentricity of about 0.87 around Mars provides the opportunities (1) to observe the same region of Mars at various times of day and various solar phase angles with spatial resolution of about 60 m from a distance of 150 km altitude (at periapsis), and (2) to monitor changes of global atmospheric conditions on Mars near an apoapsis of 15 Mars radii. In addition, (3) several encounters of Planet-B with each of the two Martian satellites are scheduled during the mission lifetime of two years from October 1999 to observe their shapes and surface structures with three color filters, centered on 450, 550, and 650 nm. (4) A search for hypothetical dust rings along the orbits of two satellites will be tried from the forward-scattering region of sunlight.

収録刊行物

• Ｅａｒｔｈ，　Ｐｌａｎｅｔｓ　ａｎｄ　Ｓｐａｃｅ

  Ｅａｒｔｈ，　Ｐｌａｎｅｔｓ　ａｎｄ　Ｓｐａｃｅ 50 (3), 183-188, 1998

  地球電磁気・地球惑星圏学会 、公益社団法人 日本地震学会、特定非営利活動法人 日本火山学会、日本測地学会、日本惑星科学会

キーワード

• Space and Planetary Science
• Geology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001206510964992
• NII論文ID: 10002205989
• NII論文ID: 130003780698
• NII書誌ID: AA11211921
• DOI: 10.1186/bf03352101
• ISSN: 18805981
• ISSN: 13438832
• Web Site: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/BF03352101.pdf
• Web Site: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/BF03352101/fulltext.html
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/BF03352101
• 本文言語コード: en
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