Hyperspectral imaging has been emerged as a new generation of technology for earth
observation and space exploration since the beginning of this millennium and widely used …

In situ research of cometary chemistry began when measurements from the Giotto mission at
Comet 1P/Halley revealed the presence of complex organics in the coma. New telescopes …

The VIRTIS (Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the
Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence of carbon-bearing compounds on the nucleus of …

INTRODUCTION Comets and asteroids preserve information on the earliest stages of Solar
System formation and on the composition of its building blocks. The nature of their solid …

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 …

Abstract The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) package is an element of the Russian
contribution to the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission. ACS …

The Dawn spectrometer (VIR) is a hyperspectral spectrometer with imaging capability. The
design fully accomplishes Dawn's scientific and measurement objectives. Determination of …

Abstract The VIRTIS (Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument
aboard the Rosetta spacecraft has performed extensive spectral mapping of the surface of …

This review presents our understanding of cometary dust at the end of 2017. For decades,
insight about the dust ejected by nuclei of comets had stemmed from remote observations …

This chapter reviews the estimates of the dust-to-gas and refractory-to-ice mass ratios
derived from Rosetta measurements in the lost materials and the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov …