Instrument Information
IDENTIFIER urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.nirs3::1.3
NAME Near InfraRed Spectrometer (NIRS3)
TYPE Spectrometer
DESCRIPTION The Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS3) onboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft was a point spectrometer that operated over the effective wavelength range of 1.8-3.2 micrometers with a 0.1 degree field-of-view. The "3" of the designation "NIRS3" comes from "3 micrometers". Around 3 micrometers, there are absorption lines of minerals with hydroxyl groups (OH). The primary goal of NIRS3 was to map the distribution of hydrated minerals on the target near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu.
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REFERENCES T. Iwata, K. Kitazato, M. Abe, M. Ohtake, T. Arai, T. Arai, N. Hirata, T. Hiroi, C. Honda, N. Imae, M. Komatsu, T. Matsunaga, M. Matsuoka, S. Matsuura, T. Nakamura, A. Nakato, Y. Nakauchi, T. Osawa, H. Senshu, Y. Takagi, K. Tsumura, N. Takato, S. Watanabe, M. A. Barucci, E. Palomba, M. Ozaki, NIRS3: The Near Infrared Spectrometer on Hayabusa2, Space Sci. Rev., 208, 317-337, 2017.