ROSETTA, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2009
ESA's Mission to the Origin of the Solar System

Coordinators: Schulz Rita, Alexander Claudia, Boehnhardt Hermann, Glaßmeier K.H.

Language: English

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Rosetta (hardback): esa's mission to the origin of the solar system
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Comets consist of the most primitive material in the solar system and to understand the earliest epoch of solar system formation, we must investigate the nature of this material. Much of what we know of comets presently comes from remote sensing using Earth-based telescopes. The Rosetta mission is poised to make a dramatic advance in our understanding of comets.

The ROSETTA Mission: Flying Towards the Origin of the Solar System.- The Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013; Gerasimenko.- Pre-Fly-by Properties of the Rosetta Asteroids Targets 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia.- The Plasma Environment of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013;Gerasimenko Throughout the Rosetta Main Mission.- Dust Environment Modelling of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013;Gerasimenko.- Rosetta Ground Segment and Mission Operations.- Scientific Planning and Commanding of the Rosetta Payload.- Alice: The Rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph.- The Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio-wave Transmission (CONSERT).- COSIMA: High Resolution Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer for the Analysis of Cometary Dust Particles Onboard ROSETTA.- The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) Experiment for the Rosetta Mission: Design, Performances and Current Results.- MIDAS: the Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System for the Rosetta Mission.- MIRO: Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter.- OSIRIS: The Scientific Camera System Onboard Rosetta.- RPC: The Rosetta Plasma Consortium.- Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis ROSINA.- Rosetta Radio Science Investigations (RSI).- VIRTIS: An Imaging Spectrometer for the ROSETTA Mission.- Rosetta Lander (#x201C;Philae#x201D;) Investigations.

This will be the first hard cover book on the Rosetta Mission, ESA’s Planetary Cornerstone Mission, discussing science and instrumentation.

Rosetta is the first ever spacecraft, which will rendezvous with a comet and go in orbit around its nucleus to explore the evolution of the comet for more than one year. It will land on the comet nucleus surface with its Lander Philae for dedicated in-situ analysis of the comet nucleus composition and structure.