The Huygens Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyzer (ACP) was designed for the chemical analysis of Titan's atmospheric aerosols. It sampled the aerosols during the descent to Titan's surface and prepared the collected material (by evaporation, pyrolysis, and gas products transfer) for analysis by the Huygens GCMS instrument.
The Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyzer (ACP) is designed to collect aerosols in Titan's atmosphere for chemical composition analysis. The physical dimensions of the ACP are 220 x 200 x 206 mm. ACP's primary objectives are to: (1) determine the chemical composition of the photochemical aerosol; (2) ascertain the relative abundances of condensed organics in a column average in the lower stratosphere; and, (3) obtain the relative abundances of condensed organics in a column average in the upper troposphere. ACP, in coordination with other probe instruments, also strives to achieve several secondary objectives. They are to: (1) obtain the absolute abundance for all condensed species, averaged over both the lower stratopsphere and the upper troposp... ...Show More
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