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Rosetta—one comet rendezvous and two asteroid fly-bys

Schulz, R.

One of the two planetary cornerstone missions of the European Space Agency is the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is a rendezvous mission with a comet nucleus, which combines an Orbiter with a Lander. It will monitor the evolution of the comet nucleus and the coma as a function of increasing and decreasing solar flux in…

Venus express: Highlights of the nominal mission

Fedorov, A.; Barabash, S.; Sauvaud, J. -A. +18 more

Venus Express is the first European (ESA) mission to the planet Venus. Its main science goal is to carry out a global survey of the atmosphere, the plasma environment, and the surface of Venus from orbit. The payload consists of seven experiments. It includes a powerful suite of remote sensing imagers and spectrometers, instruments for in-situ inv…

Astrometric and photometric observations of solar system bodies with Pulkovo Observatory's automatic mirror astrograph ZA-320M

Gorshanov, D. L.; Kouprianov, V. V.; Devyatkin, A. V. +3 more

A brief description of the process of astrometric and photometric observations and their processing by an automatic complex, based on Pulkovo Observatory’s ZA-320M telescope, is presented. The basic results of astrometric and photometric observations of Solar System bodies obtained during 1997-2007 are given. They include, in particular, the resul…

The retrieval of altitude profiles of the Martian aerosol microphysical characteristics from the limb measurements of the Mars Express OMEGA spectrometer

Bibring, J. -P.; Vasilyev, A. V.; Mayorov, B. S.

Parameterization of the spectral dependence of the optical characteristics of Martian aerosols has been proposed for processing the results of measurements of outgoing radiation. A method for retrieving the altitude profiles of the microphysical characteristics of Martian aerosols from the limb spectrometry of the OMEGA instrument of the Mars Expr…

A study of the bound water, water ice, and frost distribution over the Martian surface: Treatment and correcting of the data of observations with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard Mars Express

Fedorova, A. A.; Kuzmin, R. O.; Rodin, A. V. +3 more

The results of the analysis of the spectral observations of Mars carried out with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard the Mars Express spacecraft are presented. The data from one of the spectrometer’s channels working in the near-IR spectral range (0.93-2.69 µm) were analyzed. This range includes the characteristic absorption bands of both condensed wa…

Erratum: Erratum to: ``Evolutionary Characteristics of the Orbits of Outer Saturnian, Uranian, and Neptunian Satellites''

Vashkov'yak, M. A.; Teslenko, N. M.