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OFFICE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INFORMATION
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIFORNA. TELEPHONE MURRAY 1-3661, EXTENSION 311
FOR RELEASE: A.M.'s of August 15, 1962
MARINER SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
EXPERIMENTS DESCRIPTION EXPERIMENTERS
__________________________________________________________________
Microwave Determine the temperature of the Dr. A.H. Barrett,
Radiometer planet surface and details MIT; D.E. Jones,
concerning its atmosphere. JPL; Dr. J. Cope-
land, Army Ord-
nance Missile
Command; Dr. A.
E. Lilley, Har-
vard College
Observatory.
Infrared Determine any fine structure of Dr. L.D.Kaplan
Radiometer the cloud layer. JPL & Univ. of
NV; Dr. G.
Neugebauer, JPL;
Dr. C. Sagan,
Univ. of Calif.,
Berkeley.
Magnetometer Measure changes in the planetary P.J. Coleman,
and interplanetary magnetic NASA; Dr. L.
fields. Davis, Caltech;
Dr. E.J. Smith,
JPL; Dr. C.P.
Sonett, NASA.
Ion Chamber Measure charged-particle Dr. H.R. Ander-
Particle Flux intensity and distribution son, JPL; Dr.
Detector in interplanetary space and in H.V. Neher,
the vicinity of the planet. Caltech; Dr. J.
Van Allen, State
University of
Iowa.
Cosmic Dust Measure the density and direc- W.M. Alexander,
Detector tion of cosmic dust. NASA; Goddard
Space Flight
Center.
Solar Plasma Measure the intensity of low M. Neubegauer,
Spectrometer energy protons from the sun. & Dr. C. W.
Snyder, JPL.
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