2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Prospects for Mercury Observations with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA): Implications for Estimating Surface Roughness from Laser Altimetry
Gaku Nishiyama, Alexander Stark, Christian Hüttig +12
Surface reflectance and roughness are key to understanding Mercury's geologic evolution. The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) will measure these properties alongside topography,…
astro-ph.EP2026
Simulation of laser travel-time on Mercury for BELA
Jean Barron, Frédéric Schmidt, François Andrieu +3
Recent laser altimeters are able to not only measure the ranging distance between the spacecraft and the surface but also the full time-of-flight of the photons or pulse shape. Thi…