The lunar surface is characterized by a collisionally evolved regolith resulting from
meteoroid bombardment. This lunar soil consists of highly angular particles in a broad …

Abstract The Framing Camera (FC) is the German contribution to the Dawn mission. The
camera will map 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres through a clear filter and 7 band-pass filters covering …

The scaling of physical forces to the extremely low ambient gravitational acceleration
regimes found on the surfaces of small asteroids is performed. Resulting from this, it is found …

Context. We present an investigation of the surface properties of areas on the nucleus of
comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Aims. We aim to show that transport of material from …

The asteroid (3200) Phaethon is widely recognized as the parent of the Geminid meteoroid
stream. However, it has never shown evidence for ongoing mass loss or for any form of …

Impact-induced seismic vibrations have long been suspected of being an important surface
modification process on small satellites and asteroids. In this study, we use a series of linked …

Abstract Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the asteroid exploration
probe “Hayabusa2” in December 3rd, 2014, following the 1st Hayabusa mission. With …

Hayabusa2 is an asteroid exploration mission to return surface samples of a near-Earth C-
type asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3. Because asteroids are the evolved remnants of …

The lunar surface represents a complex plasma environment due to the presence of solar
ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the incoming solar wind flux and charged, levitated micron‐and …

The practical distinctions between asteroids and comets, viewed as products of accretion on
either side of the snow line, are less clear-cut than previously understood. In this chapter, we …