SATELLITE INSTRUMENT
Mini-EUSO
Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a wide-field telescope designed to perform observations of the UV light emission from the Earth. It has been installed in front of the UV transparent window in the Zvezda Russian module in the International Space Station since the launch in August 2019.
TYPE OF INSTRUMENT
Wide-field detector
STATUS
Operational
DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes, freely available
TIME RANGE
Since 2019
FREQUENCY OF MEASUREMENT
Sporadic
DATA PUBLISHING FREQUENCY
n/a
DATA PUBLISHING DELAY
n/a
OWNER
ASI, INFN and Tor Vergata University
MORE INFORMATION
CALIBRATED DATA
No
MEASUREMENT UNIT
n/a
WAVELENGTH RANGE
290 – 430 nm
OBSERVED AREA
from -52° to +52° of latitude
FIELD-OF-VIEW
280 km swath
POINTING DIRECTION
Nadir
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
6 km
ORBIT TYPE
LOE (Low Earth Orbit), about 400 km of altitude
DATA VISUALISATION
Yes
DATA DOWNLOAD
ASI Space Science Data Center
DATA FORMAT
png, kmz, txt
DATA POLICY
Not specified
CONTACTS
www.jemeuso.com
FURTHER REFERENCES
– Description of Mini-EUSO data on nighttime emissions (read the article)
– Scientific article about Mini-EUSO nighttime emissions measurements (read the article)
– Italian article about Mini-EUSO (read the article)
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