Television Systems and Slow-Scan Vidicons on NASA Space Probes

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 91, No. 6, pp. 542–546
Abstract: The television camera was and still remains one of NASA's scientific tools for the exploration of outer space. Unmanned probes have penetrated space to examine the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. As components of their scientific packages, the Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, Mars Orbiter, and Voyager probes incorporated television subsystems with slow-scan vidicons as their imaging sensors to photograph these bodies. This paper examines the use of slow-scan vidicons and their television cameras on NASA's unmanned space probes in the exploration of our solar system.
Publication Date: 1982-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/J00307
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J00307
Author(s): Michael M. MirabitoBowling Green State University, Dept. Radio/Television/Film, 413 South Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
Copyright: © 1982 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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