Optical Design of OPRA: Optical Probe for Regolith Analysis
Abstract
OPRA is a spike-shaped penetrator with windows down the side, each connected via fiber optics to an infrared spectrometer in the lander or rover. Once inserted into the planetary, cometary, asteroidal or moon surface, a vertical composition profile is produced.
- Publication:
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39th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008LPI....39.1391P