Laboratory evaluation and application of microwave absorption properties under simulated conditions for planetary atmospheres. Semiannual Status Report, 1 February-31 July 1986
The recognition of the need to make laboratory measurements of simulated planetary atmospheres over a range of temperatures and pressure which correspond to the altitudes probed by radio occultation experiments, and over a range of frequencies which correspond to both radio occultation experiments and radio astronomical observations, has led to the development of a facility at Georgia Tech which is capable of making such measurements. Construction was completed of the outer planets simulator and measurements were conducted of the microwave absorption and refraction from nitrogen under simulated Titan conditions. The results of these and previous laboratory measurements were applied to a wide range of microwave opacity measurements, in order to derive constituent densities and distributions in planetary atmospheres such as Venus.
- Research Organization:
- Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7262173
- Report Number(s):
- N-86-28040; NASA-CR-177267; SASR-5; TRN: 86-037300
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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GENERAL PHYSICS
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
SIMULATION
ABSORPTION
DENSITY
MICROWAVE RADIATION
NITROGEN
OPACITY
RADIOWAVE RADIATION
SATELLITES
VENUS PLANET
ATMOSPHERES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
NONMETALS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PLANETS
RADIATIONS
640107* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Planetary Phenomena