diff --git a/Instrument/AMDA/Rosetta/LAP.xml b/Instrument/AMDA/Rosetta/LAP.xml index cb51bf1..e93aba8 100644 --- a/Instrument/AMDA/Rosetta/LAP.xml +++ b/Instrument/AMDA/Rosetta/LAP.xml @@ -7,7 +7,27 @@ <ResourceName>LAP</ResourceName> <AlternateName>Langmuir Probe</AlternateName> <ReleaseDate>2009-05-20T21:10:13Z</ReleaseDate> - <Description></Description> + <Description> The ESA Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko carried a small but + comprehensive set of plasma instruments known as the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC), + monitoring the cometary plasma from arrival in August 2014 to end of mission in September + 2016. Among the RPC instruments was the Langmuir probe instrument LAP, with chief + mission to measure: + * Plasma density, ne + * Spacecraft potential, Vsc + * Electron temperature, Te + * Electric field, E + * Ion flow speed, ui + * Photoemission current, Iph + * Wave activity + + The LAP sensors are two spherical probes, 5 cm in diameter, known as LAP1 and LAP2, one +on each of the two booms protruding a few meters from the s/c body. The primary +parameters actually measured by the instrument is the current flowing to (or the voltage of) +the probes when some bias voltage (or bias current) is applied to it, which are the data +transmitted to ground. From these data the parameters above have been derived, for some +products also with use of data from RPC-MIP. Do not expect all parameters to be available at +any given time. + </Description> <Contact> <PersonID>spase://CDPP/Person/Anders.Eriksson</PersonID> <Role>PrincipalInvestigator</Role> -- libgit2 0.21.2