JPL-NASA mission to Europa: single-photon SPAD imagers for time-of-flight 3D mapping of Europa terrain, for safe landing
June 22nd, 2016
Abstract
JPL-NASA mission to Europa: single-photon SPAD imagers for time-of-flight 3D mapping of Europa terrain, for safe landing
Europa is the prime candidate as new habitable environment in our solar system, for the possible saltwater ocean beneath its ice shell. JPL-NASA awarded Dr. Federica VILLA, researcher at DEIB, the study of the LiDAR system based on Time-of-Flight CMOS SPAD imagers, for acquiring in real-time 3D maps of Europa surface, from 8 km altitude down to touch-down, with cm precision, in order to compute the safer landing site, after 4.6 years of cruise and 4 years of holding orbit around Jove and Europa.
Europa is the prime candidate as new habitable environment in our solar system, for the possible saltwater ocean beneath its ice shell. JPL-NASA awarded Dr. Federica VILLA, researcher at DEIB, the study of the LiDAR system based on Time-of-Flight CMOS SPAD imagers, for acquiring in real-time 3D maps of Europa surface, from 8 km altitude down to touch-down, with cm precision, in order to compute the safer landing site, after 4.6 years of cruise and 4 years of holding orbit around Jove and Europa.