In-situ and Remote Sensing Instrumentation for Planetary
Atmospheres Studies at the Centro de Astrobiología
F. Javier Martín-TorresCentro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC)
Acknowledgements
• Departamento de Instrumentación y la Exploración Espacial (DISE) del Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
• CRISA
• SENER
• Peter Read and Simon Calcutt (Department of Oceanic, Planetary andAtmospheric Physics, Oxford University, United Kingdom)
• Scot Rafkin (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA)
• Don Banfield (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
•Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, North Logan, Utah, USA
CAB Projects for Planetary Atmosphere Exploration
Remote Sensing
• LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)
Targets: Mars, Uranus, any other Solar System planet or satellite
[ Flight Opportunity: Uranus Pathfinder; future Solar System mission]
• Fabry-Perot Spectrometer
Targets: any Solar System planet or satellite
[ Flight Opportunity: future Solar System mission ]
CAB Projects for Planetary Atmosphere Exploration
In-situ
• IREMS (Improved Rover Environmental Monitoring Stat ion)
Targets: Mars
[Flight Opportunity: NASA Discovery opportunities, future NASA rovers/landers ]
• BOTTLE (Brine Observation Transition To Liquid Expe riment)
Targets: Mars
[Flight Opportunity: NASA Discovery opportunities, future NASA rovers/landers ]
LIN-ARES
To explore Mars atmosphere with unprecedented high-
vertical resolution
LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)
LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)
Fabry-Perot Spectrometer
A spectrometer flexible enough to allows for a wide
range of investigation that would allow to be competitive in flight opportunities
Fabry-Perot (design concept to be matured)
Credit: P. Drossart
IREMS
To characterize the Planetary Boundary Layer in Mars
REMS( Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) / Mars Science Laboratory
PI: Javier Gómez-Elvira, CAB (INTA-CSIC)
- REMS will be the first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars- it will be the first mobile environmental station to operate in an extended regionof the surface of Mars for approximately two Earth years. -It will obtain data daily, and will therefore permit an analysis of the diurnal andseasonal variations of the climate of Mars. -It will provide the first measurements on the Martian surface of: UV radiation, thethree direction wind components and the ground temperature, -It will provide long time records of other already recorded such as humidity, pressure and air temperature at different levels over the ground.
MSL FFMT (Fast Field Motion Test)
June 1-8, 2011
IREMS (Improved Rover Environmental and Monitoring Station)
•Why?•3-D capable (open sensing volume)•Also yields temperature! (~±0.2K)•Higher sensitivity (~
BOTTLE
To observe, in situ, and in a controlled way, the
formation of transient liquid water in Mars
BOTTLE (Brine Observation Transition To Liquid Experiment)
Acknowledgements
• Departamento de Instrumentación y la Exploración Espacial (DISE) del Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA): ALL PROJECTS
• CRISA: BOTTLE
• SENER: LIN-ARES
• Peter Read and Simon Calcutt (Department of Oceanic, Planetary andAtmospheric Physics, Oxford University, United Kingdom): Fabry-Perot
• Scot Rafkin (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA): IREMS
• Don Banfield (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA): IREMS
•Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, North Logan, Utah, USA: LIN-ARES
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