PDS: The Planetary Atmospheres Node
Instrument Description
The New Horizons ALICE instrument is a lightweight (4.4 kg), low-power (4.4 Watt) imaging spectrograph. It incorporates an off-axis telescope feeding a Rowland-circle spectrograph with a 520-1870 Å spectral passband, a spectral point spread function of 3-6 Å FWHM, and an instantaneous spatial field-of-view that is 6 degrees long. Different input apertures that feed the telescope allow for both airglow and solar occultation observations during the mission. The focal plane detector is an imaging microchannel plate (MCP) double delay-line detector with dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI) and a focal surface that matches the instrument's 15-cm diameter Rowland-circle.
Measurement Objectives
The ALICE data are housed at the PDS/SBN node
Useful Mission Documents
For more information on the New Horizons Mission see the following:
Archive Collections - The ALICE data are housed at the Small Bodies Node
Publications - A listing of team members to facilitate literature searches.
The New Horizons ALICE instrument is a lightweight (4.4 kg), low-power (4.4 Watt) imaging spectrograph. It incorporates an off-axis telescope feeding a Rowland-circle spectrograph with a 520-1870 Å spectral passband, a spectral point spread function of 3-6 Å FWHM, and an instantaneous spatial field-of-view that is 6 degrees long. Different input apertures that feed the telescope allow for both airglow and solar occultation observations during the mission. The focal plane detector is an imaging microchannel plate (MCP) double delay-line detector with dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI) and a focal surface that matches the instrument's 15-cm diameter Rowland-circle.
Measurement Objectives
- Pluto objectives are to search for or observe atmospheres around Pluto and Charon and to make surface reflectivity measurements of Pluto and his moons.
- At Jupiter a series of observations were carried out within the constraints of calibration and shake-down activities for the Pluto mission.
The ALICE data are housed at the PDS/SBN node
Useful Mission Documents
For more information on the New Horizons Mission see the following:
Also see Sci Rev (2008) 140: 155–187, DOI 10.1007/s11214-008-9407-3, S, Alan Stern et al. "ALICE: The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph Aboard the New Horizons Pluto–Kuiper Belt Mission"
Archive Collections - The ALICE data are housed at the Small Bodies Node
Raw Data Directory containing the EDR data files
Citation to use when referencing this data set "Stern, A., NEW HORIZONS ALICE JUPITER ENCOUNTER V2.0, NH-J-ALICE-2-JUPITER-V2.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2007."
Calibrated Data - Directory containing the RDR data files
Citation to use when referencing this data set: "Stern, A., NEW HORIZONS ALICE JUPITER ENCOUNTER V2.0, NH-J-ALICE-3-JUPITER-V2.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2007.”
As-flown Index (csv) - List of actual observations in order of acquisition
Citation to use when referencing this data set "Stern, A., NEW HORIZONS ALICE JUPITER ENCOUNTER V2.0, NH-J-ALICE-2-JUPITER-V2.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2007."
Calibrated Data - Directory containing the RDR data files
Citation to use when referencing this data set: "Stern, A., NEW HORIZONS ALICE JUPITER ENCOUNTER V2.0, NH-J-ALICE-3-JUPITER-V2.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2007.”
As-flown Index (csv) - List of actual observations in order of acquisition
Publications - A listing of team members to facilitate literature searches.
