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Open AccessThe MicrOmega Investigation Onboard Hayabusa2
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The MASCOT Camera (MasCam) is part of the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander’s science payload. MASCOT has been launched to asteroid (162173) Ryugu onboard JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return m...
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Channel C of the orbital hyperspectrometer OMEGA onboard Mars Express spacecraft has delivered data on the distribution and seasonal variability of water ice spectral features at 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 μm, based on which...
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Several parent molecules have been detected in comet P/Halley using the 2.5–5 μm channel of the IKS experiment aboard Vega 1. The spectral resolving power was about 40 at 2.5 μm and 70 at 5 μm. The v3 band of H2O...
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Temperature and size of the nucleus of comet P/Halley deduced from IKS infrared Vega 1 measurements
The infrared thermal emission of the nucleus of Halley’s comet was measured by the imaging channel of the IKS spectrometer in two wavelengths bands (7–10 µm and 9–14 µm) and in two perpendicular directions of ana...