The Clementine mission provided the first ever complete, systematic surface mapping of the moon from the ultra-violet to the near-infrared regions. More than 1.7 million images of the moon, earth, and space were returned from this mission. The long-wave-infrared (LWIR) camera supplemented the UV/visible and near-infrared mapping cameras providing limited strip coverage of the moon, giving insight to the thermal properties of the soils. This camera provided approximately 100 m spatial resolution at 400 km periselene, and a 7 km across- track swath. This 2.1 kg camera using a 128 X 128 mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) FPA viewed thermal emission of the lunar surface and lunar horizon in the 8.0 to 9.5 micrometers wavelength region. A description of this lightweight, low power LWIR camera along with a summary of lessons learned is presented. Design goals and preliminary on-orbit performance estimates are addressed in terms of meeting the mission's primary objective for flight qualifying the sensors for future Department of Defense flights.


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    Title :

    Clementine longwave infrared camera



    Conference:

    Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy ; 1995 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1995-06-06





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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