Design and Ground Verification for Multispectral Camera on the Mars Tianwen-1 Rover

• Published in: Space science reviews Vol. 218; no. 3
• Main Authors: Yang, Jian-Feng, Liu, Da-Wei, Xue, Bin, Lyu, Juan, Liu, Jian-Jun, Li, Fu, Ren, Xin, Ge, Wei, Liu, Bin, Ma, Xiao-Long, Lyu, Bao-Gang, Ruan, Ping, Qiao, Wei-Dong, Lu, Di
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Cameras; Composition; Data acquisition; Data interpretation; Design optimization; Focal plane; Image acquisition; Image resolution; Mars; Mars exploration; Mars rovers; Mars surface; Mineralogy; Modulation transfer function; Optical communication; Payloads; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Plains; Planetology; Signal to noise ratio; Space Exploration and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics; Target acquisition; The Huoxing-1 (HX-1); Thickness; Tianwen-1 (TW-1) mission to Mars; Verification; Ground test; Calibration; Multispectral camera; Mars exploration

As part of China’s first Mars exploration mission ‘Tianwen-1’, the Zhurong rover has successfully touched down on the surface of southern Utopia Planitia on May 15th 2021 and has been conducting surface operations for several months. A multispectral camera (MSCam), as an important payload onboard th...