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| | The Alice UV Spectrometer |
 | | Alice will obtain 700-2050 A spectra of the Rosetta mission asteroid flyby targets and comet rendezvous target in order to study their surfaces and atmospheres. |
 | | Alice is a compact, general-purpose UV imaging telescope/spectrometer, first developed for the Pluto mission, and now selected to fly aboard the ESA/NASA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. |
 | | In particular, at the mission's main target, comet 46P/Wirtanen, Alice will seek to measure the abundances of the major parent molecules, noble gases, key ions, and various minor species; in addition, Alice will study the comet's far-UV surface reflectance and the UV photometric properties of dust grains in the coma. |
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