Davide Grassi

TL;DR: The VIRTIS instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence of carbon-bearing compounds on the nucleus of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and no ice-rich patches are observed, indicating a generally dehydrated nature for the surface currently illuminated by the Sun.

TL;DR: Juno’s first close pass over Jupiter provides answers and fresh questions about the giant planet, including images of weather in the polar regions and measurements of the magnetic and gravitational fields and microwaves to peer below the visible surface.

TL;DR: The planetary fourier spectrometer (PFS) as discussed by the authors was used for atmospheric studies on the mission of the Venus Express, which has a short wavelength (SW) channel that covers the spectral range from 1700 to 11400 cm−1 (0.9−5.5μm) and a long wavelength (LW) channel with a uniform spectral resolution of 1.3−3.3μm.

TL;DR: The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) as discussed by the authors is an element of the Russian contribution to the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission.

TL;DR: Lutetia is likely a remnant of the primordial planetesimal population, unaltered by differentiation processes and composed of chondritic materials of enstatitic or carbonaceous origin, dominated by iron-poor minerals that have not suffered aqueous alteration.