Tasks of the spectropolarimetric experiment aboard the International space station

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1Morozhenko, OV, 1Vidmachenko, AP
1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2002, 8 ;(5-6):039-044
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2002.05.039
Publication Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: 
We list the main scientific tasks which can be solved aboard the ISS on the basis of UV-polarimetric observations. The tasks are the following: 1) the determination of spectral values of the complex refractive index of cloud particles; 2) the investigation of the nature of photometric details of discs of planets with thick atmospheres; 3) the monitoring of the long-period changes of optical properties of planetary atmospheres and the elucidation of the possible mechanism of the occurrence of the changes; 4) solving the problem of strong-absorbing Axel particles to which the effects of the UV-ab-sorption in planetary atmospheres are attributed; 5) the investigation of the thickness of hydrogen atmospheres of comets; 6) the elucidation of the causes of variations of the ozone layer thickness and temperature conditions on a global scale; 7) the improvement of the spectral values of the imaginary part of the refractive index of the martian aerosol and its optical thickness, as well as the effective radius of particles.
Keywords: aerosol, planetary atmospheres, spectropolarimetric experiment
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