GIADA: The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator for the Rosetta space mission

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 446-450

  Colangeli, L ^a   Lopez Moreno, J J ^b   Palumbo, P ^c   Rodriguez, J ^b   Bussoletti, E ^c   Della Corte, V ^a   Esposito, F ^a   Herranz, M ^b   Jeronimo J M ^b   Lopez Jimenez, A ^b   Epifani, E Mazzotta ^a   Morales, R ^b   Palomba, E ^a   Rotundi, A ^c   Vergara, S ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

67P Churyumov Gerasimenko; Cometary dust; GIADA space experiment; Rosetta space mission

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOMENTUM; OPTICAL SENSORS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE PROBES;

COMETARY DUST; COMETS; DUST FLUX; OPTICAL DETECTION SYSTEMS; SPACE MISSIONS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 34247599302     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.048     Document Type: Article

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