Abstract:
Planetary X ray measurements in
the past have yielded valuable science in several areas
such as the surface chemistry, polar auroras,
magnetospheres and solar wind interaction with the
exosphere. X-ray spectrometers have been flown in
several missions primarily to map the surface
elemental abundances. We are developing a soft X-ray
imager where multilayer mirrors are used to
selectively image the energies of interest onto the focal
plane detector. This would be thus capable of doing
imaging spectroscopy of the Martian exosphere.
