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Dennis Reuter and Amy Simon Goddard Space Flight Center 2020 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award Winners |
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"Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs: A Tale of Two Instruments"
THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
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Dennis Reuter and Amy Simon Goddard Space Flight Center 2020 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award Winners |
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Drs. Reuter and Simon have been heavily involved with or led multiple successful flight instruments, with a focus on filtered infrared spectrometers and cameras. New Horizons Ralph launched in 2006 on a journey that took it past Jupiter (2007) and on to Pluto (2015), finally reaching the distant Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth in 2019. Ralph is a dual infrared spectrometer and visible imaging camera responsible for high resolution imaging as well as surface composition mapping in key spectral bands. OSIRIS-REx OVIRS launched in 2016 to near-Earth asteroid (101995) Bennu and is a visible and near-infrared point spectrometer. OVIRS was used to map the surface composition and other properties of Bennu in support of sample site selection, but also produced a wealth of global science. This talk will cover the design, build, test, and science results from both New Horizons Ralph and OSIRIS-REx OVIRS, with a preview of what's to come from these instruments during extended missions and from their successor, Lucy L'Ralph.
About the Speakers
Dr. Amy Simon is the Senior Scientist for Planetary Atmospheres Research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her scientific research involves the study of the composition, dynamics, and cloud structure in jovian planet atmospheres, as well as spectroscopic studies of solar system small bodies, primarily from spacecraft observations, and she has authored over 160 scientific papers. Dr. Simon has been a co-investigator or instrument scientist on multiple missions, including Cassini, OSIRIS-REx, and Landsat 9. She currently serves as the Project Scientist for OSIRIS-APEX and is the Lucy L'Ralph instrument Deputy PI.
Dr. Dennis C. Reuter is a planetary scientist and Senior Fellow at the Planetary Systems Laboratory of the Solar Systems Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is an expert in the fields of remote sensing, radiative transfer and spectral interpretation and has been an author on well over 100 publications. Dr. Reuter has developed innovative spacecraft-borne remote sensing instruments based on advances in optical filter design and in focal plane detector array technology. He is the Instrument Project Scientist for the Ralph instrument on the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat-8 and for TIRS-2 on Landsat-9, the Instrument Scientist/Principal Investigator for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer (OVIRS) on the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, and the Instrument PI for the L'Ralph instrument on the Lucy Mission to the Jupiter Trojans.