Apr 22 1987
From The Space Library
An international panel of scientists selected three experiments submitted by NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, for the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby mission to be launched in early 1990's. The cometary ice and dust experiment (CIDEX) was designed to capture and analyze dust, ices, and gases evolved from the comet as the coma and tail develop during its pass around the sun. The thermal infrared radiometer experiment (TIREX) would measure the thermal emission and the scattering of solar radiation from the comet. The third experiment would consist of an interdisciplinary scientist for exobiology, the study of chemical processes and physical events leading to emergence of life in the universe. The CIDEX mission was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. (NASA Release 87-63)
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