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Identification of organic molecules with a laboratory prototype based on the Laser Ablation-CosmOrbitrap
Engrand, C.; Vuitton, V.; Briois, C. +18 more
In the Solar System, extra-terrestrial organic molecules have been found on cometary primitive objects, on Titan and Enceladus icy moons and on Mars. Identification could be achieved for simple organic species by remote sensing based on spectroscopic methods. However in situ mass spectrometry is a key technology to determine the nature of more com…
Study of morphology and degradation of lunar craters using Chandrayaan-1 data
Srivastava, Pradeep; Jain, Vikrant; Khanna, Nitin +2 more
Impact craters are essential and dominant features of the lunar surface. Under the presence of a very thin atmosphere, the degradation of the lunar craters takes place possibly due to gravity, slope processes, or solar wind weathering. Hence, these craters act as tools to understand the properties and processes of the lunar surface. Our analysis i…
A New South Polar Digital Terrain Model of Mars from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA Mars Express
Muller, Jan-Peter; Putri, Alfiah Rizky Diana; Sidiropoulos, Panagiotis +2 more
The first high-resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the entire South Pole of Mars has been produced. A modified version (Kim and Muller, 2009) of a NASA-VICAR-based pipeline developed by DLR (German Aerospace Centre) and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) has been employed with image matching based on the Gotcha (Gruen-Otto-Chau) algorithm (Shin…
Re-reduction of CCD astrometric observations of Neptunian satellites in 2006-2007 based on Gaia DR2 and comparison with ephemerides
Cheng, X.; Yan, D.; Qiao, R. C. +3 more
Based on the newly released Gaia DR2 star catalogue, the CCD images of Neptunian satellites taken by the telescopes at Xinglong Observatory of National Astronomical Observatory in 2006-2007 were re-reduced. A total of 174 satellite positions were derived, including 34 new observed positions of Triton, 28 new and 112 updated observed positions of N…
New phase-magnitude curves for some main belt asteroids, fit of different photometric systems and calibration of the albedo - Photometry relation
Cellino, A.; Carbognani, A.; Caminiti, S.
Results of photometric observations of a small sample of selected Main Belt asteroids are presented. The obtained measurements can be used to achieve a better calibration of the asteroid photometric system (H, G1 , G2) adopted by the IAU, and to make comparisons with best-fit curves that can be obtained using different photom…
New CCD astrometric observations of the five major uranian satellites using Gaia DR1 in 2014-2016
Vienne, A.; Wang, N.; Peng, Q. Y. +4 more
710 CCD frames, observed by 1-m telescope at Yunnan Observatory over 15 nights, have been reduced to derive new precise positions of the five Uranian major satellites (Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon and Miranda). In the pixel positional measurement of the faint satellites near Uranus, a halo removal procedure similar to that of Veiga et al. (Veig…
The upper atmosphere of Venus: Model predictions for mass spectrometry measurements
Wurz, P.; Galli, A.; Vorburger, A. +1 more
Venus is the closest and most similar planet to Earth in the whole solar system, yet, basic measurements are missing. The atmospheric composition has been studied to some extent with the Pioneer Venus Orbiter mission and the more recent Venus Express, however, the concentration of many species and their isotopic ratios are not yet known with satis…
Origin of Phobos grooves: Testing the Stickney Crater ejecta model
Head, James W.; Ramsley, Kenneth R.
The model of Wilson and Head (1989, 2005, 2015) interprets the grooves of Phobos as the product of sliding, rolling, and bouncing ejecta boulders from the Stickney Crater impact. To test the model of Wilson and Head (1989, 2005, 2015) we apply a dynamical physics simulation to a three-dimensional shape model of Phobos and systematically assess six…
Automated reconstruction of subsurface interfaces in Promethei Lingula near the Martian south pole by using SHARAD data
Muller, J. -P.; Xiong, S.
Subsurface layers are preserved in polar regions on Mars, which are considered to be a record of past climate changes on Mars. Orbital radar instruments like the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmit radar signals to Mars and receive a set of signals returned from interfaces having a contrast in dielectric prop…
The 2016 UK Space Agency Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI)
Coates, A. J.; Butcher, F. E. G.; Fawdon, P. +50 more
The 2016 Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI) was a Mars rover field trial run by the UK Space Agency in association with the Canadian Space Agency's 2015/2016 Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment mission. MURFI had over 50 participants from 15 different institutions around the UK and abroad. The objectives of MURFI were to develop experi…