Download or read book Fundamentals of the Planetary Spectrum Generator written by Geronimo Villanueva and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG) is a radiative transfer model suite for synthesizing and retrieving planetary spectra (atmospheres and surfaces) for a broad range of wavelengths (50 nm to 100 mm, UV/Vis/near-IR/IR/far-IR/radio) from any observatory (e.g., JWST, ALMA, Keck, SOFIA), any orbiter (e.g., MRO, ExoMars), or any lander. PSG also permits to synthesize/retrieve mass-spectrometry data of orbiters, landers and laboratory instrumentation. This is achieved by the development and implementation of state-of-the-art radiative transfer methods, spectroscopic databases and planetary databases (e.g., climatological, physicochemical and orbital).