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ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter solar-occultation spectra (ACS and NOMAD)

PhotographCC BY-SA 3.0 IGOFrom April 2018; no detection reported April 2019
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter solar-occultation spectra (ACS and NOMAD): document
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter solar-occultation spectra (ACS and NOMAD): document

Spectra of sunlight through the atmosphere at sunrise and sunset, sensitive to tens of parts per trillion above a few kilometres. They find no methane, to a limit a twentieth of the rover's background.

ESA, 2018. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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DatasetNOMAD team · archives.esac.esa.int · ESA PSA terms (acknowledge the PI and the PSA)Primary source: ESA Planetary Science Archive: ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (ACS and NOMAD)1 step from the original
DatasetACS team · archives.esac.esa.int · ESA PSA terms (acknowledge the PI and the PSA)Primary source: ESA Planetary Science Archive: ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (ACS and NOMAD)1 step from the original
DocumentESA · commons.wikimedia.org · 2019-04-10 · CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO3 steps from the original

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