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The Mip Experiment of the Rosetta Orbiter: a Mutual Impedance Probe for Waves and Plasmas Diagnosis
Trotignon, Jean-Gabriel; Vallieres, Xavier; Lagoutte, Dominique +3 more
The ROSETTA orbiter and lander will rendez-vous with the comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko round 2014 and study it for a period of nearly 2 years. A plasma and wave package, the ROSETTA Plasma Consortium, RPC, is part of the orbiter payload. Five sensors will determine the development and activity of the comet during its approach to the Sun. One of…
Cassini Altimetric Data Processing
Gim, Y.; Orosei, R.; Picardi, G. +9 more
The Cassini mission, that is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI effort, has recently offered the unique possibility of exploring Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, that is the only satellite in the solar system to host an appreciable atmosphere, which unfortunately made the surface below very difficult to be observed from the Earth, with optical instruments. In…