The SPECTRAL Ice Chamber: Application to Titan’s Stratospheric Ice Clouds

Abstract: An ice chamber for obtaining thin-film transmission spectra of Titan-relevant organic ices between 50 and 11,700 cm-1 (200–0.85 µm) is described in detail in this work. The ice chamber, called the SPECtroscopy of Titan-Related ice AnaLogs chamber, is located in the Spectroscopy for Planetary ICes Environments laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Organic vapors are typically deposited between 30 and 150 K via a variable leak valve onto a chemical vapor deposition diamond substrate, …