Beagle 2 Microscope Site
The Microscope Team
The microscope team
The microscope comprises an
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Optical head with an illumination system provided by the
Lunar and Planetary Lab.
of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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A CCD detector with associated read-out electronics provided by
CSEM
from Neuchatel in Switzerland.
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A structural element and baffling provided by MPAE.
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A translation mechanism (stepper motor) provided by the
University of Leicester.
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Data compression software provided by the Technical University of Braunschweig.
The persons responsible for the manufacture and test of the instrument are
- LPL - Peter Smith, Carroll Oquest, Robert Reynolds and Roger Tanner -
WWW page
- CSEM - Jean-Luc Josset
- MPAE - Thomas Bluemchen, Georg Tomasch and Stubbe Hviid
- UL - Shaun Whitehead - WWW page
- TUB - Peter Rueffer
In addition, the project receives scientific support from
- Beda Hofmann - Natural History Museum of Bern
- Sasha Basilevsky - Vernadsky Institute, Moscow
- Wojtek Markiewicz - MPAE
- Uwe Keller - MPAE
- Morton Madsen - University of Copenhagen
- Dima Titov - MPAE
- Michael Fernandes - Alcatel
The project is led by Nicolas Thomas of MPAE.
