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| Small Bodies Mission Support |
The Rosetta Mission is the third cornerstone mission in ESA's Horizon 2000 program. The purpose of the mission is to rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1, gather information on the comet as the spacecraft orbits it, and to land a package of instruments on the surface of the comet. Scientific objectives of the mission are to study the origin of comets, and the relationship between cometary and interstellar material.
The Rosetta spacecraft launched in March 2004 from Kourou, French Guiana. On its way to the comet it will fly by two asteroids, (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008 and (21) Lutetia on 10 July 2010. Rosetta will rendezvous with 67P/C-G 1 and gather data on the comet for 18 months.
The scheduled end of mission date is 2014.
The Rosetta Mission web site is maintained by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The SBN in cooperation with ESA will archive Earth-based observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1.
| Instrument/Investigation | Measuring | Small Bodies Data available below |
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| Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) | Emission bands and warm dust | links |
| Microwave Spectroscopy (MIRO) | Abundance of major volatile species; isotope ratios |
Comet 9P/Tempel 1 & Cruise 2
Thermal-Vacuum Test
First Earth Swingby
Commissioning
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| UV-Spectrometer (ALICE) | Abundance of highly volatile molecular species, particularly including the noble gases Ar, Ne and He, and the molecules CO, CO2, and N2; the abundance of atoms H, C, N, O and S |
COMMISSIONING 1 PHASE Includes C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) CRUISE 1 CHECKOUT PHASE COMMISSIONING 2 PHASE EARTH SWING-BY 1 PHASE CRUISE 2 PHASE Includes 9P/Tempel 1 MARS SWING-BY PHASE Includes Jupiter and Io plasma torus |
| Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) | Imaging of the the nucleus and the the dust and gas directly above the surface of the nucleus | links |
| Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) | Neutral gas and ion mass | links |
| Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (MIDAS) | Grain morphology in the nanometer to micrometer range | links |
| Rosetta Orbiter Plasma Consortium (RPC) | Ions, electrons, dust particles, and electromagnetic fields around the cometary object | links |
| Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) | Dust velocity and impact momentum | links |
| Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment By Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT) | Nucleus tomography, permittivity, and absorption | links |
| Radio Science (RSI) | Cometary orbit; nucleus mass, bulk density and gravity coefficients; dust grain distribution and plasma content of the inner coma | links |
| Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyzer (COSIMA) | Chemical composition of elemental and molecular cometary particles | links |
| Instrument/Investigation | Measuring | Small Bodies Data available below |
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| Stereo Pan Camera (ÇIVA/ROLIS) | Morphology of the cometary object | links |
| Methods of Determining and Understanding Light Elements from
Unequivocal Stable Isotope Compositions (MODULUS/Ptolemy) | Isotopic composition of the major volatiles | links |
| Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment By Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT) | Nucleus tomography, permittivity, and absorption | links |
| Alpha-Proton-X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) | Elemental composition | links |
| Cometary Sampling and Composition Experiment (COSAC) | Elemental and molecular composition | links |
| Surface Electrical, Seismic and Acoustic Monitoring Experiments (SESAME) | Mechanic/elastic properties and permittivity of the cometary surface; dust impact and production rate | links |
| RoLand Magnetic field investigation and Plasma monitor (ROMAP) | Magnetic field components; interaction of cometary object with the solar wind | links |
| Multi-Purpose Sensors For Surface and Sub-Surface Science (MUPUS) | Physical properties and composition (elemental, isotopic, molecular and mineralogical) of the nucleus | links |
| Drill and Sampling Device (SD2) | This experiment is designed to carry out the drilling, sampling, and delivery of the cometary surface and subsurface material. The collected samples will be used by the other lander experiments COSAC, MODULUS/Ptolemy, and ÇIVA. | links |
| Instrument/ Investigation Description | Target | Description of Available Data | Data Link |
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| No data available yet | |||
Other Data Sets Targeting this Object
| Target | Target Type | Other Data Sets Targeting this Object |
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| (2867) Steins | Asteroid | |
| (21) Lutetia | Asteroid | |
| 67P/Churyumoc-Gerasimenko 1 | Comet |