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    The Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor, commonly known as LUVOIR (/luːˈvwɑːr/), is a multi-wavelength space telescope concept being developed...
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    and Roman projects. It would have a large 6–8 meter mirror and be able to detect infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths. Its primary mission would...
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  • (HabEx), a large UV to NIR focused design, 4 meter mirror LOFT - Large Observatory For X-ray Timing Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor Large Interferometer...
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    Habitable Exoplanets Observatory (category Infrared telescopes)
    Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx), Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), Origins Space Telescope, and Lynx X-ray Surveyor. In 2019, the four teams...
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  • and ultraviolet observations SINGS – (observing program) Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey SIPS – (observing program/catalog) Southern Infrared Proper...
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    Hubble Space Telescope (category Ultraviolet telescopes)
    telescopes include the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a conceptualized 8 to 16.8 meters (310 to 660 inches) optical space telescope that...
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    exoplanets. The joint ESA-JAXA Comet Interceptor The NASA Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) which would replace the Hubble Space Telescope...
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    The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an array of microwave telescopes which has been observing since 2016 from a high-altitude site in...
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  • the science and technology definition team for the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor concept (aka LUVOIR), which was proposed to the 2020 Astronomy...
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    (HabEx), the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), and the Origins Space Telescope (OST, originally called the Far-Infrared Surveyor). The four...
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  • consecutive major groups, near-ultraviolet (NUV), visible light (centered on the V band), near-infrared (NIR) and part of mid-infrared (MIR). The letters are...
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    visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) primarily observes visible light and near-ultraviolet. It was launched...
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    2016 to 2019 she served as the Study Scientist for the Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) mission concept, a multi-wavelength space telescope...
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  • large optical telescopes. For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes. This list combines large...
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    at visible and infrared wavelengths. See also List of largest optical refracting telescopes, as this list does yet not include such large refractors as...
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    to Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor. The ESCAPE Hettrick-Bowyer telescope comprises a grazing-incidence mirror that focus ultraviolet light...
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    Instruments: Optical Remote Sensing ("Located on the remote sensing pallet") Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) Ultraviolet Imaging...
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    Origins Space Telescope (category Infrared telescopes)
    for the Large strategic science missions; they are the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)...
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    system; the near infrared mapping spectrometer to make multi-spectral images for atmospheric and moon surface chemical analysis; the ultraviolet spectrometer...
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    that its lower stratosphere is hazy due to condensation of products of ultraviolet photolysis of methane, such as ethane and ethyne. The stratosphere is...
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    included imaging at various wavelengths in the visible as well as in ultraviolet and infrared, laser ranging altimetry, gravimetry, and charged particle measurements...
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    contributing news feeds such as Reuters may use Lidar. Lidar uses ultraviolet, visible, or near infrared light to image objects. It can target a wide range of materials...
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    Jr. of the Santa Barbara Research Center headed the infrared radiometer experiment. Two ultraviolet spectrometers were involved in this experiment, one...
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    ultraviolet to the mid-infrared: the Lightning and Airglow Camera (LAC) is looking for lightning in the visible spectrum (552–777 nm) the ultraviolet...
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    done by three optical spectrometers, one microwave radio antenna and one radar: Alice (an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph). The ultraviolet spectrograph...
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    instruments: Remote sensing: Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T, ONC-W1, ONC-W2), Near-Infrared Camera (NIR3), Thermal-Infrared Camera (TIR), Light Detection...
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    Aurora (category Atmospheric optical phenomena)
    equipment. Ultraviolet auroras have also been seen on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Infrared: Infrared radiation, in wavelengths that are within the optical window...
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    larger materials (e.g., fragments, breccia, and exposed outcrops) with high thermal inertia, with areal fractions consistent with the Viking Infrared...
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    investigator: Ralph McNutt Jr., Applied Physics Laboratory Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer that is one of two photographic instruments comprising...
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    expansion is extremely low. Its optical transparency extends from the far infrared to the deep ultraviolet and it has high optical dispersion. It also has high...
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