[PDF] Nasa Planetary Data System Review Dust Data From The Galileo And Ulysses Missions eBook

Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
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ISBN : 9781721214747

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STARDUST, a NASA Discovery-class mission, is the first to return samples from a comet. Grains from comet Wild 2's coma-the gas and dust envelope that surrounds the nucleus-will be collected as well as interstellar dust. The mission which launched on February 7, 1999 will encounter the comet on January 10, 2004. As the spacecraft passes through the coma, a tray of silica aerogel will be exposed, and coma grains will impact there and become captured. Following the collection, the aerogel tray is closed for return to Earth in 2006. A dust impact mass spectrometer on board the STARDUST spacecraft will be used to gather spectra. of dust during the entire mission, including the coma passage. This instrument will be the best chance to obtain data on volatile grains, which will not be well-collected in the aerogel. The dust impact mass spectrometer will also be used to study the composition of interstellar grains. In the past 5 years, analysis of data from dust detectors aboard the Ulysses and Galileo spacecraft have revealed that there is a stream of interstellar dust flowing through our solar system. These grains will be captured during the cruise phase of the STARDUST mission, as the spacecraft travels toward the comet. The sample return capsule will parachute to Earth in February 2006, and will land in western Utah. Once on y the ground, the sample return capsule will be placed into a dry nitrogen environment and flown to the curation lab at JSC. Zolensky, Michael E. Johnson Space Center

Author : Robert D. Legler
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782662235

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Full color publication. This document has been produced and updated over a 21-year period. It is intended to be a handy reference document, basically one page per flight, and care has been exercised to make it as error-free as possible. This document is basically "as flown" data and has been compiled from many sources including flight logs, flight rules, flight anomaly logs, mod flight descent summary, post flight analysis of mps propellants, FDRD, FRD, SODB, and the MER shuttle flight data and inflight anomaly list. Orbit distance traveled is taken from the PAO mission statistics.

Author : S.F. Green
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080530567

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Since the last joint IAU and COSPAR Colloquium in Gainesville in 1995, there have been dramatic changes in the field resulting from in-situ space experiments, Earth orbiting satellites and ground based observations. The brightest comet since the early years of the twentieth century, comet Hale-Bopp, appeared, giving an invaluable opportunity to see in action one great source of interplanetary dust. Similarly, the Leonid meteor shower has been at its most active since 1966, producing spectacular displays of meteors and allowing for an array of observational techniques, not available in 1966 to be used, while theory has also been refined to a level where very accurate predictions of the timing of meteor storms has become possible. Prior to the meeting a total eclipse of the Sun in South West England and North Europe was observed, traditionally a good opportunity to observe the Zodiacal cloud. The knowledge of the Near-Earth Asteroid population has also increased dramatically, with the increased study arising from the heightened awareness of the danger to Earth from such bodies. Extrasolar planets have been discovered since the last meeting and it is recognised that interplanetary dust in other Planetary Systems can now be studied. Since much of the dust observed in such systems is at a distance of order 100 AU from the star, this brings into focus the production of dust in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt of our own system. Recent years have seen a recognition of the importance of dust originating outside our own system, that is now present in the near-Earth environment. As is always the case when great strides take place observationally, much theoretical work follows, and the same is true in this instance. While data about the planetary medium from Venus to Jupiter was beginning to be available at the meeting in 1995, the data from both Galileo and Ulysses have now been more fully analysed, with a corresponding increase in our knowledge. This book reflects the thematic approach adopted at the meeting, with a flow outwards (from meteors in the atmosphere, through zodiacal dust observation and interplanetary dust, to extra solar planetary systems) and returning (via the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and comets) to the Earth, with laboratory studies of physical and chemical processes and the study of extra-terrestrial samples.

Author : Andre Balogh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781852332044

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On the Ulysses mission scientists gathered observations from the unexplored regions of the heliosphere. This book presents a highly readable and concise account of the results. The authors summarise our understanding of the area and provide the basis for understanding the more complex state of the heliosphere around solar maximum. The first chapter provides an overview of the region, introducing the heliosphere prior to the Ulysses mission, and mission objectives. Subsequent chapters discuss the areas of the heliosphere, large and small scale features, cosmic rays and energetic particles, and the observations of interstellar gas and cosmic dust.

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher : National Aeronautis & Space Administration
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Planets
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This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.