The international Rosetta mission was launched in 2004 and consists of the orbiter
spacecraft Rosetta and the lander Philae. The aim of the mission is to map the comet …

Comet dust is primitive and shows significant diversity. Our knowledge of the properties of
primitive cometary particles has expanded significantly through microscale investigations of …

Before Rosetta, the space missions Giotto and Stardust shaped our view on cometary dust,
supported by plentiful data from Earth based observations and interplanetary dust particles …

We present 2–5 μm spectroscopic observations of the dust coma of 67P/Churyumov–
Gerasimenko obtained with the VIRTIS-H instrument onboard Rosetta during two outbursts …

This paper presents a new approach to determining the dimensions of particles that can be
lifted to a coma by the sublimation flux of water ice. Due to the diverse colour of the cometary …

Abstract The COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyzer (COSIMA) on board the Rosetta
mission has analysed numerous cometary dust particles collected at very low velocities (a …

We review our current knowledge of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko nucleus
composition as inferred from measurements made by remote sensing and in-situ …

The paper presents experimental studies on the degassing of porous ice and porous
mixtures of ice and sand in a vacuum. The study aims to find the relationship between the …

Abstract The composition of Solar System surfaces can be inferred through reflectance and
emission spectroscopy, by comparing these observations to laboratory measurements and …

Laboratory spectral measurements of relevant analogue materials were performed in the
framework of the Rosetta mission in order to explain the surface spectral properties of comet …