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Exospheric escape: A parametrical study

Killen, Rosemary M.; Burger, Matthew H.; Farrell, William M.

The study of exospheres can help us understand the long-term loss of volatiles from planetary bodies due to interactions of planets, satellites, and small bodies with the interplanetary medium, solar radiation, and internal forces including diffusion and outgassing. Recent evidence for water and OH on the Moon has spurred interest in processes inv…

The SSDC contribution to the improvement of knowledge by means of 3D data projections of minor bodies

Longobardo, Andrea; Palomba, Ernesto; Zinzi, Angelo +6 more

The latest developments of planetary exploration missions devoted to minor bodies required new solutions to correctly visualize and analyze data acquired over irregularly shaped bodies.

ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC - ASI, formerly ASDC - ASI Science Data Center) worked on this task since early 2013, when started developing the web tool…

GIADA performance during Rosetta mission scientific operations at comet 67P

Fulle, M.; Rodriguez, J.; Colangeli, L. +16 more

The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) instrument onboard Rosetta studied the dust environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from 3.7 au inbound, through perihelion, to 3.8 au outbound, measuring the dust flow and the dynamic properties of individual particles. GIADA is composed of three subsystems: (1) Grain Detection System …