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OFFICE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INFORMATION CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNA. TELEPHONE MURRAY 1-3661, EXTENSION 311 FOR RELEASE August 15, 1962 |
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| EXPERIMENTS | DESCRIPTION | EXPERIMENTERS |
| Microwave Radiometer | Determine the temperature of the planet surface and details concerning its atmosphere. | Dr. A.H. Barrett, MIT; D.E. Jones, JPL; Dr. J. Copeland, Army Ordnance Missile Command; Dr. A. E. Lilley, Harvard College Observatory. |
| Infrared Radiometer | Determine any fine structure of the cloud layer. | Dr. L.D.Kaplan JPL & Univ. of NV; Dr. G. Neugebauer, JPL; Dr. C. Sagan, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. |
| Magnetometer | Measure changes in the planetary and interplanetary magnetic fields. | P.J. Coleman, NASA; Dr. L. Davis, Caltech; Dr. E.J. Smith, JPL; Dr. C.P. Sonett, NASA. |
| Ion Chamber Particle Flux Detector | Measure charged-particle intensity and distribution in interplanetary space and in the vicinity of the planet. | Dr. H.R. Anderson, JPL; Dr. H.V. Neher, Caltech; Dr. J. Van Allen, State University of Iowa. |
| Cosmic Dust Detector | Measure the density and direction of cosmic dust. | W.M. Alexander, NASA; Goddard Space Flight Center. |
| Solar Plasma Spectrometer | Measure the intensity of low energy protons from the sun. | M. Neubegauer, & Dr. C. W. Snyder, JPL. |
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