The Rosetta mission orbiter science overview: the comet phase

MGGT Taylor, N Altobelli… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Atmospheric escape from unmagnetized bodies

DA Brain, F Bagenal, YJ Ma, H Nilsson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The upper atmospheres of unmagnetized solar system bodies interact more directly with
their local plasma environment than their counterparts on magnetized bodies such as Earth …

Structure, dynamics, and seasonal variability of the Mars‐solar wind interaction: MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer in‐flight performance and science results

JS Halekas, S Ruhunusiri, Y Harada… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We report on the in‐flight performance of the Solar Wind Ion Analyzer (SWIA) and
observations of the Mars‐solar wind interaction made during the Mars Atmosphere and …

SpiceyPy: A pythonic wrapper for the SPICE toolkit

AM Annex, B Pearson, B Seignovert… - Journal of Open …, 2020 - joss.theoj.org
SpiceyPy is an open-source, MIT licensed Python package that provides a pythonic interface
to nearly all of the C SPICE toolkit N66. SpiceyPy was developed in Python using the ctypes …

Ionospheric plasma of comet 67P probed by Rosetta at 3 AU from the Sun

M Galand, KL Héritier, E Odelstad… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We propose to identify the main sources of ionization of the plasma in the coma of comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at different locations in the coma and to quantify their relative …

Impact of radial interplanetary magnetic fields on the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko-Hybrid simulations of the plasma environment

H Gunell, C Goetz, S Fatemi - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The direction of the interplanetary magnetic field determines the nature of the
interaction between a Solar System object and the solar wind. For comets, it affects the …

RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

KE Mandt, A Eriksson, NJT Edberg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
One of the primary objectives of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, a suite of five plasma
instruments on-board the Rosetta spacecraft, is to observe the formation and evolution of …

The birth and growth of a solar wind cavity around a comet – Rosetta observations

E Behar, H Nilsson, M Alho, C Goetz… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The Rosetta mission provided detailed observations of the growth of a cavity in the solar
wind around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. As the comet approached the Sun, the …

Evolution of the ion environment of comet 67P during the Rosetta mission as seen by RPC-ICA

H Nilsson, GS Wieser, E Behar, H Gunell… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rosetta has followed comet 67P from low activity at more than 3.6 au heliocentric distance to
high activity at perihelion (1.24 au) and then out again. We provide a general overview of the …

Characterizing cometary electrons with kappa distributions

TW Broiles, G Livadiotis, JL Burch… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Rosetta spacecraft has escorted comet 67P/Churyumov‐Gerasimenko since 6 August
2014 and has offered an unprecedented opportunity to study plasma physics in the coma …