Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
IUVS – Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph
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- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- LASP
Description
The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on the MAVEN spacecraft measures global characteristics of the Mars upper atmosphere and ionosphere by remote sensing, including major molecules, atoms, ions and isotopes, exobase and ionosphere altitudes, and constraints on escape processes; heritage from Cassini UVIS.
Official page
https://lasp.colorado.edu/instruments/iuvs/
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Details
- Keywords
- upper atmosphere and ionosphere, atmospheric escape, exobase altitude, imaging spectrograph, cassini uvis heritage, mars corona
- Location
- In space
- Measurement band
- Ultraviolet
- Instrument platform
- MAVEN spacecraft
- Associated entity
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Deployment platform
- spacecraft