Showing papers in "Planetary and Space Science in 2016"

TL;DR: The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission as discussed by the authors is the first space experiment to demonstrate asteroid impact hazard mitigation by using a kinetic impactor to deflect an asteroid.

TL;DR: The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) of ESA's Mars Express is designed to map and investigate the topography of Mars as discussed by the authors, which is a push broom scanning instrument with nine CCD line detectors mounted in parallel, its unique feature is the ability to obtain alongtrack stereo images and four colors during a single orbital pass.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review many of these simulants, with evaluations of their short-comings, and present a list of the plethora of lunar regolith simulants and references.

TL;DR: The Dawn spacecraft Framing Camera (FC) acquired over 2400 clear filter images of Ceres with a resolution of about 140m/pixel during the six cycles in the High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) phase between August 18 and October 21, 2015 We ortho-rectified the images from the first cycle and produced a global, high-resolution, controlled photomosaic of Ceres as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Raman microscopy to monitor the low-temperature (223−273 K) deliquescence (solid to aqueous phase transition) and efflorescence (aqueous to solid phase transition), of two hydration states of CaCl 2, the dihydrate and the hexahydrate.

TL;DR: The Space Application of Timepix based Radiation Monitor (SATRAM) is a spacecraft platform radiation monitor on board the Proba-V satellite launched in an 820 km altitude low Earth orbit in 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the strength of those cometary dust particles that were disrupted upon impact by the impact of the ROSETTA spacecraft at Comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new observational data for selected main-belt asteroids of different compositional types, including low-albedo asteroids, and determined the values of the G1 and G2 parameters for magnitude phase dependences of individual asteroids.

TL;DR: In this paper, a constrained nonlinear least-squares algorithm is proposed to estimate the parameters in the H, G 1, G 2 phase function with constraints on the photometric phase-curve shape parameters G1 and G2.

TL;DR: In this article, the dispersion of the degree of linear polarization P in comets at phase angle ~90° where the maximum amplitude of positive polarization Pmax occurs was examined, and it was shown that low Pmax could be an indicator for presence of a well-developed refractory surface layer covering cometary nucleus.

TL;DR: Cosmorbitrap as mentioned in this paper was developed in the laboratory for demonstration of both technical feasibility and analytical capabilities, and a set of samples containing elements with masses ranging from 9 to 208 u has been used to evaluate the performance of the analyser in terms of mass resolving power (reaching 474 000 at m/z 9) and ability to discriminate between isobaric interferences, accuracy of mass measurement (below 15 ppm) and determination of relative isotopic abundances (below 5%) of various samples.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the LPR data at 500 MHz transmission frequency to obtain the shallow subsurface structure of the landing area of Chang׳E-3 in Mare Imbrium.

TL;DR: The Mars Express Radio Science Experiment (MaRS) employs the spacecraft and ground station radio systems to conduct radio occultations of the atmosphere and ionosphere to obtain vertical profiles of temperature, pressure, neutral number densities and electron density, and conduct bistatic radar experiments to obtain information on the dielectric and scattering properties of the surface, and investigate the structure and variation of the crust and lithosphere in selected target areas.

TL;DR: In this article, photometric and spectroscopic observations of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the 6-m BTA telescope (SAO RAS, Russia) and the 1.6m telescope of the National Laboratory for Astrophysics (LNA, Brazil) on February 20, 2012, and on May 31, 2011, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the locations of the majority of X-ray fluorescence events are ordered in two clear latitudinal bands on the dawn side of the planet centred at ~50°N and ~20°S.

TL;DR: Russell et al. as discussed by the authors show and analyse global contrast-rich color mosaics, derived from a camera on-board Dawn at Ceres, and inferring a crustal stratigraphy.

TL;DR: NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) is one of the four instruments on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scheduled for launch in March 2016 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Hera entry probe mission is proposed as an M-class mission led by ESA with a contribution from NASA as discussed by the authors, which consists of one atmospheric probe to be sent into the atmosphere of Saturn, and a Carrier-Relay spacecraft.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present multi-instrument observations of the effects of the crustal magnetic field on the Martian ionosphere at different altitudes and solar zenith angles by Mars Express.

TL;DR: In this article, the University of Aberdeen Raman facility was funded by the BBSRC Grant (BBC5125101) and the STFC Grant (ST/L001233/1).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the projected performance of the passive sounding concept and assessed the potential for its implementation as an additional mode for RIME and REASON, and concluded that the addition of a passive sounding mode on RIME or REASON stands to enhance their science return by enabling sub-Jovian HF sounding in the presence of decametric noise, but that there is not a compelling case for implementation at a different frequency.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new radiative transfer, convection and suitably adapted boundary layer schemes and a dynamical core were developed to simulate a super-rotation phenomenon in the cloud region quantitatively similar to the one observed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a comprehensive analysis of the rock size-frequency distribution at the Chang'E-3 landing site using 84 NavCam stereo images acquired at 7 waypoints by the Yutu rover and an interactive stereo image processing system.

TL;DR: The Dawn Framing Camera (FC) acquired almost 900 clear filter images of Ceres with a resolution of about 400m/pixels during the seven cycles in the Survey orbit in June 2015 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the reconstruction of the landing sequence of the ROSETTA-mission lander at Agilkia over a period of around 20 seconds from first ground contact to lift-off again.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the thermo-physical evolution of comets in exoplanetary systems in order to provide valuable theoretical data required to interpret observations of gas and dust.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hyperspectral lunar reflectance model based on SELENE/SP data was developed to simulate disk-resolved Moon radiance observed by multispectral sensors in space.

TL;DR: In this article, an estimation of the solid thermal conductivity of surficial lunar regolith based on the data of the LRO Diviner radiometer is presented. And the estimation is carried out by searching for the optimal surficial solid component that makes the root-mean-square error (RMSE) between Diviner data and simulated temperatures minimum.

TL;DR: In this article, a statistical modeling approach using the method of moments is presented to combine dust processing with detailed simulations of interstellar gas dynamics, and a solar-neighbourhood-like toy model of interstellar dust evolution is presented as an example.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of the atmospheric density, more specifically, the effects that the changes of isobaric altitude have on the accuracy of a fireball analysis, and proposed an atmospheric height correction method that utilizes real atmospheric data to analysis of the fireball.