Abstract
The Galileo Mission was the first to fly a camera with a large format (800 × 800 pixels) solid state detector, a charge-coupled device (CCD), to perform a high-spatial resolution imaging exploration of a planet and its satellites. This marked a turning point in planetary exploration. Imaging had previously been done using slow-scan vidicon detectors which suffered from scene-dependent calibration problems that made it difficult to conduct reliable, quantitative, analyses of the data. With the introduction of the CCD, cameras became linear in their response to light, geometrically stable regardless of the magnitude of intensity gradients in the image, and therefore capable of confident absolute photometric and geometric calibration. Silicon CCDs also permitted the spectral range of the data to be extended out from the visible (0.30–0.65 pm) into the near-infrared (NIR; 0.7–1 μm); i.e., into a spectral region where the images can be quantitatively applied to atmospheric and geologic spectrophotometric problems.
In addition to M.J.S. Belton, the Galileo Imaging Team now includes: C. Anger (ITTRES, Canada), M.H. Carr (US Geological Survey), C.R. Chapman (S.W. Res. Institute), M.E. Davies (RAND), R. Greenberg (Univ. of Arizona), R. Greeley (Arizona State Univ.), J.W. Head III (Brown Univ.), K. Klaasen (JPL), G. Neukum (DLR, Germany), C.B. Pilcher (NASA), J. Veverka (Cornell Univ.); Associated Interdisciplinary Scientists: F. Fanale (Univ. of Hawaii), P.J. Gierasch (Cornell Univ.), A. P Ingersoll (California Inst. Tech.), W. Ip (Max Planck f. Aeronomie, Germany), M.B. McElroy (Harvard), A.S. McEwen (Univ. of Arizona), D. Morrison (Ames Res. Center), G.S. Orton (JPL). Associate Team Members: T.V. Johnson (JPL), R. West (JPL), R.F. Beebe (New Mexico State Univ.), J.A. Burns (Cornell Univ.), and P. Thomas (Cornell Univ.).
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Belton, M.J.S., The Galileo Imaging Team. (1997). Images from the Galileo Mission. In: Barbieri, C., Rahe, J.H., Johnson, T.V., Sohus, A.M. (eds) The Three Galileos: The Man, the Spacecraft, the Telescope. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8790-7_7
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