The COSAC experiment of the Rosetta mission: Performance under representative conditions and expected scientific return

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-186

  Szopa, C ^a   Goesmann, F ^b   Rosenbauer, H ^b   Sternberg, R ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Comets; COSAC experiment; Instrument calibration; Molecular composition; Rosetta mission

Indexed keywords

DUST; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SAMPLING;

COSAC EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION; MOLECULAR COMPOSITION; ROSETTA MISSION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 34547121493     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.086     Document Type: Article

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