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IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:nh.mvic::2.1
NAME MULTISPECTRAL VISIBLE IMAGING CAMERA
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DESCRIPTION The Ralph experiment consists of two channels, the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (Ralph MVIC) and the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (Ralph LEISA). The main objectives are to obtain high-resolution color maps and surface composition maps of Pluto and Charon, including global dayside four-color maps at 0.7 km/pixel resolution, dayside hyper-spectral near-infrared maps at 7 km/pixel globally and 0.6 km/pixel for selected areas, and maps of dayside surface ice distribution and temperatures.
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REFERENCES Reuter, D., A. Stern, J. Baer, L. Hardaway, D. Jennings, S. McMuldroch, J. Moore, C. Olkin, R. Parizek, D. Sabatke, J. Scherrer, J. Stone, J. VanCleeve, and L. Young, Ralph: a visible/infrared imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission, Proc. SPIE 5906, Astrobiology and Planetary Missions, 59061F, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.617901

Reuter, D.C., S.A. Stern, J. Scherrer, D.E. Jennings, J. Baer, J. Hanley, L. Hardaway, A. Lunsford, S. McMuldroch, J. Moore, C. Olkin, R. Parizek, H. Reitsma, D. Sabatke, J. Spencer, J. Stone, H. Throop, J. Van Cleve, G.E. Weigle, and L.A. Young, Ralph: A Visible/Infrared Imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission, Space Sci. Rev., Volume 140, Numbers 1-4, pp. 129-154, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-008-9375-7