The Wideband Imaging Camera is designed to image the whole Earth and the auroral oval from satellite distances greater than 4 Earth radii to the center of the Earth. It selects the spectral range between 140 nm and 160 nm in the ultraviolet part of the optical spectrum. A curved image intensifier is optically coupled to a CCD and the optics provides a field of view of 17x17 degrees. The temporal resolution between two images is 120 s and the size of the final images is 256x256 pixel elements, corresponding to spatial resolutions of less than 100 km at apogee distances.
The WIC Characteristics are summarized below:Last update: 24 June 1997
by Harald U. Frey, nospam_hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu