In-situ and Remote Sensing Instrumentation for Planetary

Atmospheres Studies at the Centro de Astrobiología

F. Javier Martín-TorresCentro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC)

Acknowledgements

• Departamento de Instrumentación y la Exploración Espacial (DISE) del Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)

• CRISA

• SENER

• Peter Read and Simon Calcutt (Department of Oceanic, Planetary andAtmospheric Physics, Oxford University, United Kingdom)

• Scot Rafkin (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA)

• Don Banfield (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

•Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, North Logan, Utah, USA

CAB Projects for Planetary Atmosphere Exploration

Remote Sensing

• LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)

Targets: Mars, Uranus, any other Solar System planet or satellite

[ Flight Opportunity: Uranus Pathfinder; future Solar System mission]

• Fabry-Perot Spectrometer

Targets: any Solar System planet or satellite

[ Flight Opportunity: future Solar System mission ]

CAB Projects for Planetary Atmosphere Exploration

In-situ

• IREMS (Improved Rover Environmental Monitoring Stat ion)

Targets: Mars

[Flight Opportunity: NASA Discovery opportunities, future NASA rovers/landers ]

• BOTTLE (Brine Observation Transition To Liquid Expe riment)

Targets: Mars

[Flight Opportunity: NASA Discovery opportunities, future NASA rovers/landers ]

LIN-ARES

To explore Mars atmosphere with unprecedented high-

vertical resolution

LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)

LIN-ARES (Limb and Nadir Atmospheric Radiometer for Emission Sounding)

Fabry-Perot Spectrometer

A spectrometer flexible enough to allows for a wide

range of investigation that would allow to be competitive in flight opportunities

Fabry-Perot (design concept to be matured)

Credit: P. Drossart

IREMS

To characterize the Planetary Boundary Layer in Mars

REMS( Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) / Mars Science Laboratory

PI: Javier Gómez-Elvira, CAB (INTA-CSIC)

- REMS will be the first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars- it will be the first mobile environmental station to operate in an extended regionof the surface of Mars for approximately two Earth years. -It will obtain data daily, and will therefore permit an analysis of the diurnal andseasonal variations of the climate of Mars. -It will provide the first measurements on the Martian surface of: UV radiation, thethree direction wind components and the ground temperature, -It will provide long time records of other already recorded such as humidity, pressure and air temperature at different levels over the ground.

MSL FFMT (Fast Field Motion Test)

June 1-8, 2011

IREMS (Improved Rover Environmental and Monitoring Station)

•Why?•3-D capable (open sensing volume)•Also yields temperature! (~±0.2K)•Higher sensitivity (~

BOTTLE

To observe, in situ, and in a controlled way, the

formation of transient liquid water in Mars

BOTTLE (Brine Observation Transition To Liquid Experiment)

Acknowledgements

• Departamento de Instrumentación y la Exploración Espacial (DISE) del Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA): ALL PROJECTS

• CRISA: BOTTLE

• SENER: LIN-ARES

• Peter Read and Simon Calcutt (Department of Oceanic, Planetary andAtmospheric Physics, Oxford University, United Kingdom): Fabry-Perot

• Scot Rafkin (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA): IREMS

• Don Banfield (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA): IREMS

•Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, North Logan, Utah, USA: LIN-ARES