Maria Elisabetta Palumbo

TL;DR: The profile (shape, width, and peak position) of the main infrared bands of molecular species expected to be present in icy grain mantles are studied to take into account the modifications induced on icy samples by low-energy cosmic ray bombardment and by thermal processing.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the cycling of some species in the icy Galilean satellites that are exposed to the intense fluxes of energetic particles coming from the Jupiter magnetosphere.

TL;DR: The Stardust spacecraft collected dust samples of the Kuiper belt comet 81P Wild-2 in aerogel and returned them to Earth January 15, 2006 as discussed by the authors, where the main PE science goals are to provide an initial charac-terization of the returned samples with an emphasis on the capture process and its effects on the samples, a comparison of Star-dust samples to other meteoritic materials, and the abundance of presolar materials in the Stardust samples.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of the observed absorption band at about 660 cm-1 (15.1 µm) toward NGC7538 IRS1 attributed to the bending mode of solid CO2 with laboratory spectra of ion irradiated mixtures is presented.

TL;DR: Galiano et al. as discussed by the authors performed an investigation as part of SIMULATION OF SPACE WEATHERING on AIRLESS BODIES OF SOLAR Systems. But their work was limited to the simulation of space weather.