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I am the Mars Atmospheric Global Imaging Experiment PI.
I’m the 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter.
I am from Maryland Space Science Systems.
Were a small company in San Diego, 20 years of hardware experience,
we do imaging system development, mission operations, and science data analysis.
We have a pretty good track record.
We have thirty-four plus instrument years of deep space operations
and we currently have seven different MSL cameras
operating on space crafts orbiting three different planetary bodies at this time
with two more this year with Juno and MSL launching.
We built 20 flight instruments on 12 missions
and have collected over 700,000, we have commanded over 700,000 images
and down linked those and have over 300,000 hours of instrument operations.
So we have quite a bit of experience, I’ll be extending on this.
This is the TGO space craft, which is a joint mission with ESA.
Here is the MAGIE, we were kind of (Inaudible) by all the other instruments on the space craft.
This is their test lander they have and this is the MAGIE instrument.
MAGIE is from a long line of wide angle cameras
that have been built by Maryland space science systems
from mock to the MCO orbital camera
to Marcy, Emero, to L Rock wide angle camera,
and now the MAGIE.
We have a fairly large international diverse science team.
I like to say our international partners,
these are all the free guys we get on our team because we don’t have to pay them.
So our U.S. side is fairly small.
So it keeps our cost down.
MAGIE consists of a single camera head
with dual optics for the UV and the Vis and a digital electronics assembly,
(Inaudible) less than three kilograms.
Again were doing overall instrument management,
all hardware and software development,
and design and build in house at Maryland Space Science Systems, couple sub-contractors.
We have a lot of heritage on this space craft
and that is why we were selected from MRL Marcy,
though we have a smaller field of view.
Basically same camera head design,
electronics from MSL, a turntable from (Inaudible) MSL,
and a digital electronics assembly also from our MSL instruments.
The investigation that MAGIE will be carrying out in association with the other instruments
will be providing global context imaging,
synoptic weather monitoring of the full day side of the planet on each orbit,
provide context for the trace gas experiments,
will also measure the CO2, the water ice clouds and dust,
and we also have the capability to look at the trace gas ozone.
At the 400 kilometer altitude,
the space craft will have a ground sampling resolution of less than 500 meters
at full resolution at the nadir, which is twice the resolution,
high resolution than any previous wide angle camera sent to Mars,
and were about two and half kilometers on the limb.
Operations again, the day side of the planet will be on just before we get to the terminator,
and just after we pass the terminator on every orbit.
Were a push framing system as previous wide angle cameras have a lot of experience with that.
That works very well for these kind of experiments.
On this one we have gone a step further,
we have a turntable on the camera to compensate for the Yaw of the space craft.
This allows us to actually turn our instrument
so that long track direction of our detector is along the velocity vector of the space craft
and this allows us to do a mission phase function observations.
Fortunately, this is at the loss at the expense of the daily global mapping coverage,
but from this we can provide visible optical depths of water ice clouds and dust,
particle sizes, and the single (inaudible) function of the aerosols in the atmosphere.
Science objectives.
Again, were going to provide the mirror logical context for the other trace gas instruments,
look for localized sources of syncs for the aerosols.
We’re going to map the ozone,
provide geological context for trace gases,
and the secondary is to extend the daily global mapping coverage
that was begun by the MGS mock in 1999.
We’ve had continuous daily coverage since then.
So were over six Mars years of weather so were actually,
if MRO continues and MAGIE gets to Mars safely and operates,
we’ll be basically just into about our second decade.
We’ll be going into our second decade of weather observations,
which at that point we can actually start talking about climate
instead of just modeling it and actually talk about the real thing.
We will provide neurological support for future missions.
So just some pretty pictures I want to show that we can actually map water ice clouds.
This is from the MRO Marcy on a daily basis
and we can actually look at the dust storms and the water ice clouds.
These are important because the distribution of the atmospheric traces gasses
are controlled by mirrological conditions so it is very important to provide daily global coverage.
We’re actually the only instrument on the spacecraft that provides true global coverage
of the day-side of the planet.
We’ll map the occurrence of atmospheric ozones.
This is the summertime map of the Marcy UV camera
where the bright colors are actually high concentrations of ozone
mapped in space and the North Polar Region.
Ozone is important, it is a reactive concentrate in the Martian atmosphere,
which controls the UV flux that reaches the surface.
It’s a tracer of photo chemistry and highly relevant to overall trace gas research.
We’re going to provide context for the trace gas observations.
This is basically what the MAGIE daily global mapping resolution will look like.
This is our (Inaudible) and there is these little dust groups kicking up on a plateau
of the southern slopes
and this is what the view will be in the context image full resolution.
We have the ability to bring back low resolution data
and then if we see something interesting,
command back the full resolution data so we can do post-imaging targeting
so we’ll basically not miss any interesting atmospheric events.
Here are the ploons on the slopes here.
The possibility of active volcanism or hyrdomagmatic processes, Geysers basically.
It’s a long shot that we see anything like this.
We haven’t seen anything to date in any of the orbiter mission,
but if something was to be observed,
we would be able to bring back context imaging of this to help the trace gas instruments
target these regions later.
Here is a pretty map.
This is the kind daily product we will bring back every day
to the project and these will be distributed actually to the community
in a fairly short time scale
and we’ll also be providing neurological support for rovers.
We have been doing that for MUR on a daily basis
and we’ve actually provided enough support
and need time and observations of a number of dust storms
that we were able to provide them enough, MUR mission,
enough need time that they can shut down the experiment
and we’ve actually extended the life of,
well unfortunately Sprit is now gone,
but we were able to extend the mission
because we were able to forecast the dust storm moving over the region in 2008.
So we plan to do that for future rover missions
and all lander missions.
That’s all I have.