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Richard Peralta

Senior Systems Engineer at RTX Corp

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Proceedings Article | 27 July 2016 Paper

RVS large format arrays for astronomy

Barry Starr, Lynn Mears, Chad Fulk, Jonathan Getty, Eric Beuville, Raymond Boe, Christopher Tracy, Elizabeth Corrales, Sean Kilcoyne, John Vampola, John Drab, Richard Peralta, Christy Doyle

Proceedings Volume 9915, 99152X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233033

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Mercury cadmium telluride, Infrared radiation, Infrared detectors, Sensors, Silicon, Infrared radiation, Sensors, Infrared detectors, Readout integrated circuits, Modulation transfer functions, Quantum efficiency, Semiconducting wafers

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Proceedings Article | 31 July 2010 Paper

Recent focal plane arrays for astronomy and remote sensing applications at RVS

Richard Peralta, Eric Beuville, Elizabeth Corrales, John Drab, Shawn Erving, Andrew Gin, Robert Mills, Charles Rabkin

Proceedings Volume 7742, 77421L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858290

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Staring arrays, Electronics, Space telescopes, Readout integrated circuits, Astronomy, Quantum efficiency, Optical filters, Telescopes, Visible radiation

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Proceedings Article | 15 November 2007 Paper

Aerosol polarimetry sensor for the Glory Mission

Richard Peralta, Carl Nardell, Brian Cairns, Edgar Russell, Larry Travis, Michael Mishchenko, Bryan Fafaul, Ronald Hooker

Proceedings Volume 6786, 67865L (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.783307

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Calibration, Aerosols, Polarization, Polarimetry, Space operations, Signal processing, Telescopes, Clouds, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2007 Paper

High performance large infrared and visible astronomy arrays for low background applications: instruments performance data and future developments at Raytheon

Eric Beuville, David Acton, Elizabeth Corrales, John Drab, Alan Levy, Michael Merrill, Richard Peralta, William Ritchie

Proceedings Volume 6660, 66600B (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734846

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Astronomy, Mercury cadmium telluride, Infrared sensors, Quantum efficiency, Infrared radiation, Staring arrays, Space telescopes, Infrared detectors, Visible radiation

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Proceedings Article | 20 January 2005 Paper

Mars exploration via thermal emission spectroscopy

Carl Schueler, Karl Blasius, Philip Christensen, Steven Silverman, Steven Ruff, Michael Wyatt, Greg Mehall, Richard Peralta, Duane Bates

Proceedings Volume 5655, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.582763

KEYWORDS: Mars, Spectroscopy, Remote sensing, Imaging systems, Magnesium, Minerals, Spatial resolution, Visible radiation, Hematite, Planets

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Arizona State University (ASU), and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) have executed a series of successful Mars exploration missions. These have recently been publicized on television and the internet with the early 2004 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission geological robots that have revolutionized our detailed knowledge of the planet's geology and atmosphere. This latest mission success has its foundation in missions dating back to 1969. Over the past thirty-five years NASA has demonstrated a long-term commitment to planetary science and solar system exploration that continues with a commitment recently expressed by President Bush and codified in a reorganization of the NASA space sciences mission directorate. This paper reports on a small but exciting aspect of this sweeping NASA program, and illustrates the benefits and efficiency with which planetary and solar system exploration can be accomplished. Key in the success is the vision not only of NASA in general, but of the mission Principal Investigator, in particular. The specific series of missions leading to MER contains an underlying vision of carefully planned geological investigations using remote sensing instrumentation, starting with broad survey, leading to more finely resolved global imaging, and finally to landing instrumentation capable of detailed rock and soil analyses. The mission started with broad and relatively coarse spatial resolution orbital surveys with fine spectral capability focused on identifying the overall geological and atmospheric character of the planet accomplished from 1996 to the present conducted by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES). This led to the more detailed global imaging at finer spatial resolution offered by the Mars 2001 Odyssey Mission Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) which identified specific landing sites of interest for detailed exploration. The mission culminated in the recent MER lander geological analyses conducted by the mini-TES instruments carried by the rovers. This series of remote sensing investigations has set the stage for a new era in solar system exploration.

Proceedings Article | 3 November 2003 Paper

Miniature thermal emission spectrometer for the Mars Exploration Rover

Steven Silverman, Richard Peralta, Philip Christensen, Greg Mehall

Proceedings Volume 5157, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.511577

KEYWORDS: Mars, Mirrors, Calibration, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms, Minerals, Signal to noise ratio, Interferometers, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 30 January 2002 Paper

Miniature thermal emission spectrometer for the Mars Exploration Rover

Richard Peralta, Steven Silverman, Duane Bates, Phil Christensen, Greg Mehall, Tom Tourville, Rolph Keehn, George Cannon

Proceedings Volume 4485, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.454289

KEYWORDS: Mars, Mirrors, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms, Magnesium, Interferometers, Spectral resolution, Minerals, Remote sensing

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