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Citation Smith, D., G. Neumann, E. A. Guinness, and S. Slavney, Mars Global Surveyor Laser Altimeter Precision Radiometry Data Record, NASA Planetary Data System, MGS-M-MOLA-3-PRDR-L1A-V1.0, 2004.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.17189/1519490
Data Set Abstract The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeternot only provides surface topography from the laser pulsetime-of-flight, but also two radiometric measurements, the activemeasurement of transmitted and reflected laser pulse energy, and thepassive measurement of reflected solar illumination. The passiveradiometry measurement is accomplished in a novel fashion bymonitoring the noise density at the output of the photodetector andsolving for the amount of background light. The passive radiometrymeasurements provide images of Mars at 1064-nm wavelength over a 2 nmbandwidth with sub-km spatial resolution and with 2% or betterprecision under full illumination.
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    Mission Information MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR
    Data Set Information MGS-M-MOLA-3-PRDR-L1A-V1.0
    Instrument Host Information MGS
    Instrument Information MOLA
    Target Information MARS