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 …

The Philae lander accomplished the first soft landing and the first scientific experiments of a
human-made spacecraft on the surface of a comet. Planned, expected and unexpected …

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 …

This paper presents a novel approach to launch single microparticles at high velocities
under low vacuum conditions. In an all-optical table-top method, microparticles with sizes …

Context. Cometary meteoroid trails exist in the vicinity of comets, forming a fine structure of
the interplanetary dust cloud. The trails consist predominantly of the largest cometary …

The exploration and investigation of lunar soil can provide necessary information for human
beings to understand the Moon's geological evolution history and solar activity, and is also …

On 12 November 2014, during the descent of the Rosetta lander Philae to the surface of
comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko the Dust Impact Monitor (DIM) on board Philae …

The size distribution in a given ensemble of cometary dust grains reveals, eg, which
particles dominate the optical scattering cross-section when observed from a distance, and …