The Visible Imaging System (VIS)
for the Polar Spacecraft

L. A. Frank, J. B. Sigwarth, J. D. Craven, J. P. Cravens,
J. S. Dolan, M. R. Dvorsky, P. K. Hardebeck, J. D. Harvey,
and D. W. Muller.

29 July 1993
Revised: 14 December 1993

The University of Iowa
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Iowa City Iowa 52242

This article originally appeared in Space Science Reviews, vol. 71, pp. 297-328, 1995. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in Belgium. Reprinted by permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Overview of Instrumentation
• Mechanical Design
• Optics for the Low and Medium Resolution Cameras
• Stray Light Rejection
• Earth-Camera Optics
• Sensors
• Electronics
• Data Compression
• Performance
• In-flight Operations
• Summary
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Plate Captions
• Figure Captions
• Tables

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