NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a Europa Lander astrobiology mission concept to search for biosignatures within Europa’s subsurface. However, Europa’s rugged terrain presents a number of physical hazards for landing. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is designing a radiation-hardened real-time direct-detection LIDAR system at 532nm to aid with autonomous hazard avoidance and landing site selection for this Europa Lander concept. The detector for this system is a 2048x32 array of silicon Geiger-mode APDs and covers the required field-of-view in one dimension, removing the need for 2D stitching and enabling real-time data processing. Detector design, improvements for radiation tolerance and component characterization results are presented.


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    Titel :

    A Direct Detection LiDAR Detector for the Europa Lander Concept


    Beteiligte:
    San Martin, Alejandro Miguel (Autor:in) / Katake, Anup (Autor:in) / Duerr, Erik (Autor:in) / Kranefeld, Zach (Autor:in) / Mihallari, Jorgo (Autor:in) / Karolyshyn, Thomas (Autor:in) / Nothern, Denis (Autor:in) / Pretorius, Herman (Autor:in) / Brattain, Mike (Autor:in) / Donlon, Kevan (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-04-03


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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