What we can expect to learn from robotic exploration of a comet nucleus surface

Space 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 695-702

  Rietmeijer, Frans J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DUST; JETS; METEORITES; MINERALOGY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMET NUCLEUS SURFACE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034587640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40479(204)84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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