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ROSETTA

ESA's Mission to the Origin of the Solar System

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Editors:
  1. Rita Schulz

    1. ESA/ESTEC SSD, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

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  2. Claudia Alexander

    1. California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, USA

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  3. Hermann Boehnhardt

    1. MPI für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

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  4. K.H. Glaßmeier

    1. TU Braunschweig Inst. Geophysik/extraterr. Physik, Braunschweig, Germany

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  • This will be the first hard cover book on the Rosetta Mission, ESA’s Planetary Cornerstone Mission, discussing science and instrumentation.
  • Rosetta is the first ever spacecraft, which will rendezvous with a comet and go in orbit around its nucleus to explore the evolution of the comet for more than one year. It will land on the comet nucleus surface with its Lander Philae for dedicated in-situ analysis of the comet nucleus composition and structure.

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Keywords

  • Asteroid space observations
  • Churyomov-Gerasimenko
  • Comet rendezvous mission
  • Comet space observations
  • Planet
  • Planetary System Information
  • Planetary system
  • Rosetta Mission book
  • Solar System
  • Space Instruments
  • Space Science Missions
  • solar
  • space
  • space science

About this book

Comets consist of the most primitive material in the solar system and to understand the earliest epoch of solar system formation, we must investigate the nature of this material. Much of what we know of comets presently comes from remote sensing using Earth-based telescopes. The Rosetta mission is poised to make a dramatic advance in our understanding of comets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ESA/ESTEC SSD, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Rita Schulz

  • California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, USA

    Claudia Alexander

  • MPI für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    Hermann Boehnhardt

  • TU Braunschweig Inst. Geophysik/extraterr. Physik, Braunschweig, Germany

    K.H. Glaßmeier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: ROSETTA

  • Book Subtitle: ESA's Mission to the Origin of the Solar System

  • Editors: Rita Schulz, Claudia Alexander, Hermann Boehnhardt, K.H. Glaßmeier

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77517-3Published: 01 April 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3946-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLVI, 785

  • Additional Information: Partially reprinted, with updates and corrections, from Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 128/1-4, 2007

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