PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "ATMOS" OBJECT = TARGET TARGET_NAME = "PPR RCT" OBJECT = TARGET_INFORMATION TARGET_TYPE = "CALIBRATION" PRIMARY_BODY_NAME = "N/A" ORBIT_DIRECTION = "N/A" ROTATION_DIRECTION = "N/A" TARGET_DESC = " Description =========== The PPR Radiometric Calibration Target (RCT) is mounted on the spacecraft so that it is viewed by the PPR when the Galileo Orbiter scan platform is pointed near the zero cone angle direction. Intended primarily for calibration of the PPR thermal radiometry bands, the RCT has a truncated conical interior with a center cylindrical section. The interior of the target is a smooth, specularly reflecting, black-painted surface that with the truncated conical geometry achieves a thermal emittance of 0.998 when viewed on axis by the PPR. Note that the end of the central cylindrical portion of the target is not viewed by the PPR since that area is within the central obscuration from the secondary mirror of the PPR telescope. The RCT is designed and mounted such that simply through passive thermal equilibrium, it will have a temperature in the range, 125 K to 140 K, during the Jupiter Phase of the Galileo Mission. Actual temperature of the RCT is monitored by two platinum resistance thermometers (PRTs) that are calibrated to an accuracy of 0.2 K. These PRTs are connected to the PPR so that their readouts can be included in the PPR science data stream. Although the RCT is designed primarily to provide a target that closely approximates a blackbody source at its monitored temperature in order to perform inflight calibration of the PPR thermal radiometry bands, it includes a small tungsten-filament lamp mounted in the RCT interior so that it can be used as a radiometric and polarimetric reference standard for the shortwave PPR bands as well. When this lamp is commanded on for non-radiometry band calibration, its output passes through two elliptically shaped, plane-parallel sapphire plates mounted such that the outer surface of the stack approximately conforms to the inner conical surface of the RCT. This configuration provides shortwave band calibration while having negligible effect on the thermal emittance of the RCT." END_OBJECT = TARGET_INFORMATION OBJECT = TARGET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "N/A" END_OBJECT = TARGET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION END_OBJECT = TARGET END