Advances in electronics and instrument technology over the past thirty years have enabled a new concept for NASA missions, an evolution from large Voyager-class spacecraft to smaller, less costly Discovery and Explorer missions. By taking advantage of micromachining and micro-instrumentation, this reduction in size can be accomplished without requiring a sacrifice in performance. In some cases, the small payload will enable new types of missions which would be otherwise inconceivable. A microweather station is envisioned as an enabling technology for a network of weather stations on Mars for measuring wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, and aerosol concentration in the Martian planetary boundary layer...


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    Title :

    Microinstruments for a Low Power, Low Mass Weather Station


    Contributors:
    Hoenk, M. E. (author) / Zandt, T. R. Van (author) / Kaiser, W. J. (author) / Crisp, D. (author) / Tillman, J. (author)

    Conference:

    40th Nat'l AVS Symp. & Topical Conference: Nanometer Scale Sci. & Technology


    Publication date :

    1993-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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