Jim Bell's NEAR Activities

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  • Click here to go to the official NEAR Home Page (JHU/APL)

  • Click here to go to the NEAR MSI/NIS Team Work Space (Restricted Access)

  • Click here to go to the NEAR MSI/NIS Team Cornell Members' Public Area

    What is Bell doing on this project? Click here to view a copy of Jim's NEAR/NIS Participating Scientist proposal text
    Click on this page for the latest NEAR spacecraft orbital information, for those of you following along at home with your own home-grown orbit tracking programs or commercial ones like Voyager or Dance of the Planets:

  • NEAR Spacecraft Orbital Parameters (12/11/96)

  • Where is NEAR Today? (Updated Daily)

    This section contains some Public-Release images and spectra from the NIS and MSI instruments:

  • MSI/NIS Public Release Images and Spectra (4/25/96)

    This section contains some information on the NIS and MSI instruments:

  • NIS Fact Sheet (9/29/95)

  • MSI Fact Sheet (9/29/95)

    1995-1996 NIS Calibration Reports

    This section contains Jimbo's 1995-1996 NEAR/NIS and MSI Calibration information, with the more recent results at top.

  • NIS Calibration Report #17 (7/12/96) NIS "All-On" Test Results: Noise Induced by Other Instruments

  • NIS Calibration Report #16 (5/8/96) NIS Initial Turn-On Temperatures and Currents

  • Comet C/1996 B2 Observing Plans (3/12/96) March 24 1996 15:00 UT MSI Comet Hyakutake Sequencing Outline

  • NIS Calibration Report #15 (2/23/96) Incomplete NIS Temperature Calibration

  • NIS Calibration Report #14 (11/28/95) NIS Spectral Crosstalk, Report #2

  • NIS Calibration Report #13 (11/07/95) NIS sample measurements online

  • NIS Calibration Report #12 (10/18/95) Comparison between NIS and MSI sample measurements

  • NIS Calibration Report #11 (7/18/95) Preliminary Ge and InGaAs radiometric calibration

  • NIS Calibration Report #10 (7/18/95) Ge and InGaAs short-axis (spectral) profile scan results

  • NIS Calibration Report #9 (7/13/95) Leakage of unblocked first-order signal onto Ge detector

  • NIS Calibration Report #8 (7/13/95) Search for detector noise induced by NIS shutter

  • NIS Calibration Report #7 (7/13/95) Better wavelength calibration for Ge and InGaAs detectors

  • NIS Calibration Report #6 (6/13/95) Preliminary wavelength calibration for Ge and InGaAs detectors

  • NIS Calibration Report #5 (5/20/95) Assessment of InGaAs SNR needs

  • NIS Calibration Report #4 (2/23/95) Ge piece-part spectral responsivity

  • NIS Calibration Report #3 (2/22/95) Ge piece-part linearity test data, at other temperatures

  • NIS Calibration Report #2 (2/2/95) Ge piece-part dark current temperature sensitivity

  • NIS Calibration Report #1 (1/25/95) Ge piece-part linearity test data, T=-26, vacuum

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    For information contact Jim Bell
    Mail to: jimbo@cuspif.tn.cornell.edu