BepiColombo is the next 5th ESA's cornerstone. It has been selected in the fall 2000 and it is planned for a launch in 2013. It will reach Mercury after a 6 years trip and will perform 1 year observation with two S/C (Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter). The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem) instrument is a system integrating a STereoscopic imaging Channel (STC), a High spatial Resolution Imaging Channel (HRIC) and a Visual and Infrared Hyper-spectral Imager channel (VIHI). SIMBIO-SYS has been selected by ESA in the payload of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the BepiColombo mission. The main scientific objective is the global mapping of the entire surface of Mercury in 3D and colors with a maximum spatial resolution of 50 m per pixel. It will allow to generate the Digital Terrain Model of the entire surface improving the interpretation of morphological features at different scales and topographic relationships. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the STC 3D rendering for geological purpose the xy pixel ground size and the z error has been estimated at apoherm and periherm. These data were used for 3D simulation on Earth geological feautures likely representative of the hermean surface and small enough to be near the detection limit of the STC. In particular we have analyzed the Tenoumer (Mauritania) and Roter Kamm (Namibia) craters with dimension similar to the Hun Kal crater on Mercury, defining its 20° meridian . In addition a small lava volcano from the volcanic complex of Michoacan-Guanajuato 1 (Messico), an endogenic dome of the Meseta de Somuncara volcanic district (Argentina) and the long basaltic lava flows related the M. Payun volcano (Argentina) were considered. One of the main objective of the study of the hermean surface is the volcanic-vs-ejecta origin of the inter-crater and smooth plains and the detection of these volcanic features will be of paramount importance to solve this debate.
3D Simulation of terrestrial morphological analogues of hermean surface to evaluate SIMBIO-SYS STereo Camera rendering capacity for geological purpose
Da Deppo V;
2006
Abstract
BepiColombo is the next 5th ESA's cornerstone. It has been selected in the fall 2000 and it is planned for a launch in 2013. It will reach Mercury after a 6 years trip and will perform 1 year observation with two S/C (Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter). The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem) instrument is a system integrating a STereoscopic imaging Channel (STC), a High spatial Resolution Imaging Channel (HRIC) and a Visual and Infrared Hyper-spectral Imager channel (VIHI). SIMBIO-SYS has been selected by ESA in the payload of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the BepiColombo mission. The main scientific objective is the global mapping of the entire surface of Mercury in 3D and colors with a maximum spatial resolution of 50 m per pixel. It will allow to generate the Digital Terrain Model of the entire surface improving the interpretation of morphological features at different scales and topographic relationships. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the STC 3D rendering for geological purpose the xy pixel ground size and the z error has been estimated at apoherm and periherm. These data were used for 3D simulation on Earth geological feautures likely representative of the hermean surface and small enough to be near the detection limit of the STC. In particular we have analyzed the Tenoumer (Mauritania) and Roter Kamm (Namibia) craters with dimension similar to the Hun Kal crater on Mercury, defining its 20° meridian . In addition a small lava volcano from the volcanic complex of Michoacan-Guanajuato 1 (Messico), an endogenic dome of the Meseta de Somuncara volcanic district (Argentina) and the long basaltic lava flows related the M. Payun volcano (Argentina) were considered. One of the main objective of the study of the hermean surface is the volcanic-vs-ejecta origin of the inter-crater and smooth plains and the detection of these volcanic features will be of paramount importance to solve this debate.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
