Proceedings of the 14th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Potsdam, Germany, 1999

SOME RESULTS OF THE CRYOGENIC INFRARED SPECTROMETERS AND TELESCOPES FOR THE ATMOSPHERE (CRISTA) EXPERIMENT

M. Riese¹, R. Spang¹, J. Oberheide¹, G. Lehmacher^1,2, P. Preusse¹, and D. Offermann¹

Abstract

The CRISTA experiment aboard the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) was flown on the Space Shuttle missions STS 66 (November 94) and STS 85 (August 97). During both missions atmospheric temperatures and trace gases mixing ratios were measured with unprecedented spatial resolution from a 300 km, 57° inclination orbit. This paper discusses validation measurements performed during CRISTA 2 as well as some of the results of CRISTA 1 [see also Ref. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 32].

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¹Physics Department, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.

²now at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA.