Loros: laboratory simulations of the Optical RadiOmeter Composed of CHromatic Imagers (OROCHI) experiment of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission

Abstract The Laboratory OROCHI Simulator (LOROS) is an emulator of the Optical RadiOmeter composed of CHromatic Imagers (OROCHI), a multispectral and multiview imaging system for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, that will study Phobos and Deimos with the objective of determining their origin. OROCHI consists of 8 visible/near-infrared (390–950 nm) spectral channels, hosted on 8 separate camera systems, arranged in a 3 $$\times $$ <mml:math