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    SMART-1 Mission to the Moon: Technology and Science Goals

    AMIE

    Fig.6 AMIE camera optical and unit
    detector unit

    The micro camera AMIE (Josset et al 2003) will provide high-resolution CCD images of selected lunar areas (Table 5 lists the broad objectives of the camera). It includes filters deposited on the CCD in white light + three filters for colour analyses, with bands at 750 nm, 900 nm and 950 nm. These will provide data on the 1 mm absorption of pyroxene and olivine. The camera will have an average resolution of 80 m/pixel, and 30 m/pixel near a 300 km the perilune. AMIE images will provide a geological context (Figures 9 & 10) for SIR and D-CIXS data, and colour or multi-phase angle complement (Muinonen et al 2002). Lunar south pole (Figure 8) repeated and deep high resolution images will be obtained. This will allow the identification of shadowed or double-shadowed areas, the search for potential 'water ice traps' or 'cold traps'. Also, SMART-1 will map potential sites of 'eternal light' and 'eternal shadow' or sites relevant for future lunar exploration (lunar bases, power supplies).

    PI: J.L.Josset, Co-Is: F, I, FI, NL, ESA
    Science and Technology Objectives:
    - Packaged 3-D interconnect technology camera
    - medium/high-res. multi-spectral imaging
    - Extension of data-set Apollo/Clementine
    - Support to the laser-link experiment (Figure 7)
    - OBAN On Board Autonomous Navigation Experiment
    - RSIS Radio Science Libration Experiment
    Main Experiment features:
    - 5.3° FOV, 1024 x 1024 Si-CCD
    - Average pixel resolution of 80 m (30 m at perilune )
    - 5 colours: panchromatic + laser-link + 3 medium-band filters (0.75, 0.9, and 0.96 µm)
    - 0.96 µm channel aligned to SIR
    - High-density CCD electronics. & Micro-DPU
    - Shielded Off The Shelf components.
    - 1.8 kg (Opt.Head 400 g), 9W

    Table 5 SMART-1 AMIE multi-colour Camera

    Fig 7. AMIE Laser link experiment

    Fig 8. (Image, courtesy Lunar and Planetary Institute

    The AMIE camera will take high-resolution images to study the illumination properties of the lunar south polar region during the 6 month lunar science phase. AMIE will be able to map the interior of dark craters, taking targeted exposures deeper than those from the Clementine instruments.

    Fig. 9: Medium spatial resolution images (200 m/pixel) from Clementine UVVIS camera for the Orientale Basin (Courtesy of DLR-Berlin). The AMIE camera will provide the geological and spatial context for the other SMART-1 instruments, delivering high spatial resolution (30 m/pixel) multicolour images, as well as stereo imagery for topographic studies or multi-phase angle observations.

    Fig. 10: Comparison between the swaths of the SMART-1 remote sensing instruments in lunar orbit: D-CIXS (32 x 12 deg), AMIE (5x5 deg or 2.5x1.25 deg colour frames) and SIR (4 arcmin point spectral continuous mapping)

     

    SIR
    Operations, Data Archiving and Integration

    Last Update: 02 Jun 2004

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