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Alice: The rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

Parker, Joel Wm.; Stern, S. A.; Feldman, P. D. +8 more

We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. It will be the first UV spectrograph to study a comet at cl…