New Horizons Ralph instrument

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The New Horizons Ralph instrument is a visible and infrared imager/spectrometer aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, designed to capture detailed color and composition data of distant Kuiper Belt objects and other solar system bodies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf spacecraft imaging instrument
visible and infrared imager/spectrometer
dataProduct color and composition maps of Arrokoth
composition maps of Pluto’s surface ices
global color maps of Pluto
dataType hyperspectral cubes
multispectral images
developedBy Ball Aerospace
Southwest Research Institute
fieldOfView wide-angle
fullName Ralph
hasSubsystem LEISA
MVIC
launchDate 2006-01-19
launchVehicle Atlas V 551
mission New Horizons mission
linked to: New Horizons
missionPhaseUsage Jupiter flyby observations
Kuiper Belt extended mission
Pluto system encounter
linked to: Pluto system
namedAfter Ralph Kramden character from The Honeymooners
operator NASA
pairedWith New Horizons Alice instrument
partOf New Horizons spacecraft
linked to: New Horizons
primaryFunction infrared imaging
spectroscopy
visible imaging
purpose capture composition data of distant solar system bodies
capture detailed color data of distant solar system bodies
map surface composition
study Kuiper Belt objects
study Pluto system
support geological and morphological studies
roleInMission primary color imager
primary composition mapper
scientificDiscipline planetary science
remote sensing
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft New Horizons
targetBody Arrokoth
Charon
Kuiper Belt objects
Pluto
Pluto’s small moons
usesDetectorType CCD
infrared detector array
wavelengthRange near-infrared
visible

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Arrokoth observedBy New Horizons Ralph instrument
subject linked to: Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
Alice pairedInstrument Ralph (New Horizons instrument)
linked to: New Horizons Ralph instrument
Mordor Macula imagedBy New Horizons Ralph instrument
Vulcan Planum imagedBy New Horizons Ralph instrument
Thule observedBy New Horizons MVIC instrument
linked to: New Horizons Ralph instrument