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FUV Heritage

The ICON FUV instrument is based upon the IMAGE-FUV Spectrographic Imager (SI), flown on NASA IMAGE in 2000.

Figure 1. The ICON FUV instrument was adapted from the highly successful FUV Spectrographic Imager (SI) flown on the NASA IMAGE satellite is [Mende et al., 2000c].

ICON skin is based on Greytness by Adammer™
Background image, courtesy of NASA, is a derivitave of photograph taken by D. Pettit from the ISS, used under Creative Commons license