DESCRIPTION |
The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) is a set of three cameras designed to support the mission through
all phases, from approach to sample collection. The asteroid is first acquired through the PolyCam, an 8?
Ritchey-Chretien telescope capable of detecting up to 12th magnitude objects limited by spacecraft jitter. As features
on the asteroid become resolvable, PolyCam is used for preliminary mapping at a surface resolution of less
than twenty-five cm. MapCam performs mapping at a suite of phase angles using a panchromatic and four color filters.
The color filters are the b?, v, w, and x-bands, which, except for the b? filter, are similar in bandwidth to the
ECAS filter set used by ground-based astronomers. Several major survey campaigns are conducted with both
the MapCam and PolyCam to select and characterize potential sample sites on Bennu. Reconnaissance sample site
flyover sorties provide centimeter and sub-centimeter scale Polycam images to provide both context and confirmation of
TAGSAM (Touch And Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) ingestable material. The final sampling sequence is documented by
the wide-field SamCam and gives the context for the recovered sample. All cameras use identical detector arrays with
different focal lengths separated by a factor of 5. The 3 cameras in the instrument suite provide overlapping
capabilities and are functionally redundant [Rizk et al. 2018].
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REFERENCES |
B. Rizk, C. Drouet d'Aubigny, D. Golish, C. Fellows, C. Merrill, P. Smith, M.S. Walker, J.E. Hendershot, J. Hancock,
S.H. Bailey, D. DellaGiustina, D. Lauretta, R. Tanner, M. Williams, K. Harshman, M. Fitzgibbon, W. Verts,
J. Chen, T. Connors, D. Hamara, A. Dowd, A. Lowman, M. Dubin, R. Burt, M. Whiteley, M. Watson, T. McMahon, M. Ward,
D. Booher, M. Read, B. Williams, M. Hunten, E. Little, T. Saltzman, D. Alfred, S. O Dougherty, M. Walthall, K. Kenagy,
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S. Oliver, C. Oquest, D. Crowley, C. Morgan, C. Castle, R. Dominguez, M. Sullivan, OCAMS: The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite,
Space Sci Rev (2018) 214:26.
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