☆MIC Mars imaging camera
MIC (Mars imaging camera) is a visual wavelength camera to be launched with the Planet-B space c
raft.
Since Planet-B takes a very elliptic retrograde orbit, MIC can take global images of
Mars. It can monitor changes of global atomospheric conditions on Mars: e.g., dust storm
growth, change of atomospheric opacity due to dust and thin hazy clouds ,change of cloud features, g
rowth and retreat of polar caps, development and thickness of polar hood. In
addtion, since the planned orbits will make close encounters of Planet-B with its
satellites ,Phobos and Deimos several times during the mission lifetime ,and
consequently ,MIC can observe the shapes and the surface of the two satellites in detail.