Grazing incidence spectrometer GIS

Made:: 1993-1995 in Holmbury St Mary

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Grazing incidence spectrometer [GIS]
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Grazing incidence spectrometer [GIS], a flight spare detector for the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer [CDS] one of twelve instruments carried on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory [SOHO]. Made at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

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Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1998-173

Materials:: aluminium, plastic, gold and complete

Measurements:: overall: 75 x 175 x 70 mm

type:: astronomical instruments and grazing incidence spectrometers

credit:: Mullard Space Science Laboratory

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Grazing incidence spectrometer GIS

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