Tuning a NASA Instrument: Calibrating MASTER

Tuning a NASA instrument: Calibrating MASTER

NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating numerous instruments that get deployed on research aircraft, but one of their most important roles is instrument calibration.

NASA Fine-Tunes MASTER Instrument for Calibration

Exploring NASA’s Airborne Sensor Facility: A Hub of Precision and Innovation NASA’s Ames Research Center, nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, is home to an exceptional laboratory known as the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). This facility is a vital cog in the machinery of space exploration and Earth observation. The engineers working here are […]

Tuning a NASA Instrument: Calibrating MASTER

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Electrical engineer Nikolas Gibson performs calibration tests on the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) spectrometer, co-developed by NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Gibson works at the Airborne Sensor Facility at Ames, which builds, maintains, miniaturizes, and calibrates instruments.NASA/Milan Loiacono NASA’s Ames Research Cent…