Rosetta Alice Instrument (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Rosetta Alice Instrument

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The Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer will be the first to study a comet up close. The shoebox-sized instrument is one-third to one-half the mass of comparable UV instruments, yet with more than 10,000 times as many imaging pixels as the spectrometer aboard Galileo.

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Southwest Research Institute

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