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Space weather at planet Venus during the forthcoming BepiColombo flybys
Odstrcil, D.; McKenna-Lawlor, S.; Jackson, B.
The BepiColombo (BC) Mission which will be launched in 2018, will include during its Cruise Phase two flybys of Venus and five Mercury flybys. It will then enter a one Earth year orbit about Mercury (with a possible one-year extension) during which two spacecraft, one provided by ESA (MPO) and one provided by JAXA (MMO), will perform both autonomo…
Characterizing dark mantle deposits in the lunar crater Alphonsus
Videen, G.; Ivanov, M. A.; Shkuratov, Y. G. +6 more
We analyze available remote-sensing data of the crater Alphonsus, focusing on the analysis of the crater's dark mantle deposits (DMDs), which includes images from NASA Clementine and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Japanese Selene (Kaguya), and Indian Chandrayaan-1 missions. The Alphonsus DMDs are gentle-sloped flat hills with typical heights …
Stereo topographic mapping concept for the upcoming Luna-Resurs-1 orbiter mission
Oberst, J.; Polyansky, I.; Zhukov, B. +4 more
We report on the Lunar Stereo Topographic Camera (LSTC), currently being developed for the upcoming Luna-Resurs-1 Orbiter mission, which will perform observations from an orbit with the altitude to be optimized in the range from 50 to 100 km. The LSTC is composed of two identical optical heads and a common data processing unit. Each optical head h…
Mapping and dating based evolution studies of the Niger Vallis outflow channel, Mars
Kostama, V. -P.; Kukkonen, S.
Niger Vallis is one of the four large outflow channel systems in the eastern Hellas rim region of Mars. Niger, as well as the other nearby valles, is assumed to have been carved by water and later covered by ice-rich deposits. Thus, it plays a significant role both in the fluvial and glacial evolution of the region. This work presents the photogeo…