The SCITECHSS Group is a research and development team of scientists and engineers based at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–CSIC (Granada-Spain). It devotes its efforts to develop instruments for the exploration of our Solar System with the aim of obtaining scientific data. The analysis and interpretation of these data allow us to advance in the understanding of the nature of the planets, their satellites, and the small bodies.
Latest news
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Winds in Mars atmosphere can be accurately measured with a microwave limb sounder
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Members of our group have developed a computationally efficient cross-correlation method to retrieve atmospheric winds from microwave limb sounder measurements and tested it using simulated observations of a generic instrument. For the baseline instrument configuration, simulations yield wind accuracy better than 10 m/s between roughly 20 and 150 km. The advantages and operational potential are
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How to scrutinize the brightest lunar impact flash recorded from Earth
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A member of our group has led the first comprehensive morphological and spectral analysis of the largest lunar impact detected to date, an event that occurred on 11 September 2013, which was originally identified by IAA researchers through the MIDAS project. More than a decade later, the IAA has taken the investigation a step further
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Light curve simulation in an open-access web tool!!!
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Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) have developed a new open-access web tool that allows the simulation and analysis of light curves of asteroids and other small Solar System bodies. The work has been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) (DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556525). The article, titled “An Open-Access Web Tool for Light