The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) experiment for NASA's 2009 Mars Science Laboratory.
We present a summary of the physical principles and design of the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument onboard NASA's 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. The DAN instrument will use the method of neutron-neutron activation analysis in a space application to study the abundance and depth distribution of water in the martian subsurface along the path of the MSL rover.
Litvak
M L
ML
Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. Litvak@mx.iki.rssi.ru
Mitrofanov
I G
IG
Barmakov
Yu N
YN
Behar
A
A
Bitulev
A
A
Bobrovnitsky
Yu
Y
Bogolubov
E P
EP
Boynton
W V
WV
Bragin
S I
SI
Churin
S
S
Grebennikov
A S
AS
Konovalov
A
A
Kozyrev
A S
AS
Kurdumov
I G
IG
Krylov
A
A
Kuznetsov
Yu P
YP
Malakhov
A V
AV
Mokrousov
M I
MI
Ryzhkov
V I
VI
Sanin
A B
AB
Shvetsov
V N
VN
Smirnov
G A
GA
Sholeninov
S
S
Timoshenko
G N
GN
Tomilina
T M
TM
Tuvakin
D V
DV
Tretyakov
V I
VI
Troshin
V S
VS
Uvarov
V N
VN
Varenikov
A
A
Vostrukhin
A
A
D006859:Hydrogen / Q000032:analysis; D007753:Laboratories; D018535:Mars; D009502:Neutrons; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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