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In response to the scientific interest in Jupiter's Galilean moons, NASA and ESA have plans to send orbiting missions to Europa and Ganymede, respectively. The inter-moon transfers of the Jovian system offer obvious advantages in terms of scientific return, but are also challenging to design and optimize due in part to the large, often chaotic, sensitivities associated with repeated close encounters of the planetary moons. The approach outlined in this paper confronts this shortcoming by exploiting the multi-body dynamics with a patched three-body model to enable multiple “resonant-hopping” gravity assists. Initial conditions of unstable resonant orbits are pre-computed and provide starting points for the elusive initial guess associated with the highly nonlinear optimization problem. The core of the optimization algorithm relies on a fast and robust multiple-shooting technique to provide better controllability and reduce the sensitivities associated with the close approach trajectories. The complexity of the optimization problem is also reduced with the help of the Tisserand–Poincaré (T–P) graph that provides a simple way to target trajectories in the patched three-body problem. Preliminary numerical results of inter-moon transfers in the Jovian system are presented. For example, using only 59 m/s and 158 days, a spacecraft can transfer between a close resonant orbit of Ganymede and a close resonant orbit of Europa. 相似文献
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This study presents a new approach to the concept of cosmic consciousness integrated in current neuroscience knowledge and discusses implications for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It also examines different aspects related to consciousness and how it may play a key role in the understanding of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and life in the Universe and its implications. Subjects (n=116) were college students from Spain, the United States, and Italy. Subjects responded to a questionnaire comprising five different sections: (A) religious beliefs, (B) environment and general opinion, (C) astronomy, (D) contact, and (E) attention and perception. The results showed the importance of several modular aspects that affect Space awareness in humans. Preliminary results are discussed with regard to current neuroscience, factor analysis, and possible implications for the understanding of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The roles of education, new search strategies, and possible contact scenarios are also discussed. 相似文献
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Stefano Mottola Gabriele Arnold Hans-Georg Grothues Ralf Jaumann Harald Michaelis Gerhard Neukum Jean-Pierre Bibring 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):241-255
ROLIS (Rosetta Lander Imaging System) is one of the two imaging systems carried by Rosetta’s Lander Philae, successfully launched
to comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko in March 2004. Consisting of a highly-miniaturized CCD camera, ROLIS will operate as a descent imager, acquiring imagery
of the landing site with increasing spatial resolution. After touchdown ROLIS will focus at an object distance of 30 cm, taking
pictures of the comet’s surface below the Lander. Multispectral imaging is achieved through an illumination device consisting
of four arrays of monochromatic light emitting diodes working in the 470, 530, 640 and 870 nm spectral bands. The drill sample
sites, as well as the Alpha X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) target locations will be imaged to provide context for the measurements
performed by the in situ analyzers. After the drilling operation, the borehole will be inspected to study its morphology and to search for stratification.
Taking advantage of the Lander’s rotation capability, stereo image pairs will be acquired, which will facilitate the mapping
and identification of surface structures. 相似文献
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Rosemary Killen Gabrielle Cremonese Helmut Lammer Stefano Orsini Andrew E. Potter Ann L. Sprague Peter Wurz Maxim L. Khodachenko Herbert I. M. Lichtenegger Anna Milillo Alessandro Mura 《Space Science Reviews》2007,132(2-4):433-509
It has been speculated that the composition of the exosphere is related to the composition of Mercury’s crustal materials.
If this relationship is true, then inferences regarding the bulk chemistry of the planet might be made from a thorough exospheric
study. The most vexing of all unsolved problems is the uncertainty in the source of each component. Historically, it has been
believed that H and He come primarily from the solar wind (Goldstein, B.E., et al. in J. Geophys. Res. 86:5485–5499, 1981), Na and K come from volatilized materials partitioned between Mercury’s crust and meteoritic impactors (Hunten, D.M., et
al. in Mercury, pp. 562–612, 1988; Morgan, T.H., et al. in Icarus 74:156–170, 1988; Killen, R.M., et al. in Icarus 171:1–19, 2004b). The processes that eject atoms and molecules into the exosphere of Mercury are generally considered to be thermal vaporization,
photon-stimulated desorption (PSD), impact vaporization, and ion sputtering. Each of these processes has its own temporal
and spatial dependence. The exosphere is strongly influenced by Mercury’s highly elliptical orbit and rapid orbital speed.
As a consequence the surface undergoes large fluctuations in temperature and experiences differences of insolation with longitude.
Because there is no inclination of the orbital axis, there are regions at extreme northern and southern latitudes that are
never exposed to direct sunlight. These cold regions may serve as traps for exospheric constituents or for material that is
brought in by exogenic sources such as comets, interplanetary dust, or solar wind, etc. The source rates are dependent not
only on temperature and composition of the surface, but also on such factors as porosity, mineralogy, and space weathering.
They are not independent of each other. For instance, ion impact may create crystal defects which enhance diffusion of atoms
through the grain, and in turn enhance the efficiency of PSD. The impact flux and the size distribution of impactors affects
regolith turnover rates (gardening) and the depth dependence of vaporization rates. Gardening serves both as a sink for material
and as a source for fresh material. This is extremely important in bounding the rates of the other processes. Space weathering
effects, such as the creation of needle-like structures in the regolith, will limit the ejection of atoms by such processes
as PSD and ion-sputtering. Therefore, the use of laboratory rates in estimates of exospheric source rates can be helpful but
also are often inaccurate if not modified appropriately. Porosity effects may reduce yields by a factor of three (Cassidy,
T.A., and Johnson, R.E. in Icarus 176:499–507, 2005). The loss of all atomic species from Mercury’s exosphere other than H and He must be by non-thermal escape. The relative
rates of photo-ionization, loss of photo-ions to the solar wind, entrainment of ions in the magnetosphere and direct impact
of photo-ions to the surface are an area of active research. These source and loss processes will be discussed in this chapter. 相似文献
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The LISA Pathfinder Drift Mode is an experimental mode proposed for the LISA Pathfinder drag free space mission. The Drift Mode’s specificity is to switch off a possibly noisy actuator periodically in order to minimize the actuation noise. The experiment delivers a measurement that includes data segments virtually free of any actuation force noise. The corresponding acceleration data is then used to estimate the experiment disturbance spectrum, using a calibrating and gap-filling algorithm. This article focuses on two points to demonstrate the feasibility and interest of such an experiment: a first part is dedicated to experiment control and dynamics, whereas the second part explains how to solve the challenging problem posed by the data analysis. 相似文献
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Thomas H. Reiprich Kaustuv Basu Stefano Ettori Holger Israel Lorenzo Lovisari Silvano Molendi Etienne Pointecouteau Mauro Roncarelli 《Space Science Reviews》2013,177(1-4):195-245
Until recently, only about 10 % of the total intracluster gas volume had been studied with high accuracy, leaving a vast region essentially unexplored. This is now changing and a wide area of hot gas physics and chemistry awaits discovery in galaxy cluster outskirts. Also, robust large-scale total mass profiles and maps are within reach. First observational and theoretical results in this emerging field have been achieved in recent years with sometimes surprising findings. Here, we summarize and illustrate the relevant underlying physical and chemical processes and review the recent progress in X-ray, Sunyaev–Zel’dovich, and weak gravitational lensing observations of cluster outskirts, including also brief discussions of technical challenges and possible future improvements. 相似文献
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F. Perotti A. Della Ventura G. Villa L. Bassani C. Butler G. Di Cocco R.E. Baker J.N. Carter A.J. Dean 《Advances in Space Research (includes Cospar's Information Bulletin, Space Research Today)》1984,3(10-12)
The black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 was observed in the hard X ray - soft γ ray energy range by the MISO telescope on two different occasions: in September 1979 and May 1980. We have measured two hard X-ray states of the source: in 1979 the observed spectrum confirms the superlow state measured in the same period by the HEAO-3 satellite, while in 1980 the MISO X-ray data are consistent with the so called low state of Cygnus X-1. In both occasions, no γ -ray excess has been observed above 200 KeV. 相似文献
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J. Gómez-Elvira C. Armiens L. Casta?er M. Domínguez M. Genzer F. Gómez R. Haberle A.-M. Harri V. Jiménez H. Kahanp?? L. Kowalski A. Lepinette J. Martín J. Martínez-Frías I. McEwan L. Mora J. Moreno S. Navarro M. A. de Pablo V. Peinado A. Pe?a J. Polkko M. Ramos N. O. Renno J. Ricart M. Richardson J. Rodríguez-Manfredi J. Romeral E. Sebastián J. Serrano M. de?la Torre Juárez J. Torres F. Torrero R. Urquí L. Vázquez T. Velasco J. Verdasca M.-P. Zorzano J. Martín-Torres 《Space Science Reviews》2012,170(1-4):583-640
The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) will investigate environmental factors directly tied to current habitability at the Martian surface during the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Three major habitability factors are addressed by REMS: the thermal environment, ultraviolet irradiation, and water cycling. The thermal environment is determined by a mixture of processes, chief amongst these being the meteorological. Accordingly, the REMS sensors have been designed to record air and ground temperatures, pressure, relative humidity, wind speed in the horizontal and vertical directions, as well as ultraviolet radiation in different bands. These sensors are distributed over the rover in four places: two booms located on the MSL Remote Sensing Mast, the ultraviolet sensor on the rover deck, and the pressure sensor inside the rover body. Typical daily REMS observations will collect 180 minutes of data from all sensors simultaneously (arranged in 5 minute hourly samples plus 60 additional minutes taken at times to be decided during the course of the mission). REMS will add significantly to the environmental record collected by prior missions through the range of simultaneous observations including water vapor; the ability to take measurements routinely through the night; the intended minimum of one Martian year of observations; and the first measurement of surface UV irradiation. In this paper, we describe the scientific potential of REMS measurements and describe in detail the sensors that constitute REMS and the calibration procedures. 相似文献
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Christina Plainaki Tim A. Cassidy Valery I. Shematovich Anna Milillo Peter Wurz Audrey Vorburger Lorenz Roth André Galli Martin Rubin Aljona Blöcker Pontus C. Brandt Frank Crary Iannis Dandouras Xianzhe Jia Davide Grassi Paul Hartogh Alice Lucchetti Melissa McGrath Valeria Mangano Alessandro Mura Stefano Orsini Chris Paranicas Aikaterini Radioti Kurt D. Retherford Joachim Saur Ben Teolis 《Space Science Reviews》2018,214(1):40
Despite the numerous modeling efforts of the past, our knowledge on the radiation-induced physical and chemical processes in Europa’s tenuous atmosphere and on the exchange of material between the moon’s surface and Jupiter’s magnetosphere remains limited. In lack of an adequate number of in situ observations, the existence of a wide variety of models based on different scenarios and considerations has resulted in a fragmentary understanding of the interactions of the magnetospheric ion population with both the moon’s icy surface and neutral gas envelope. Models show large discrepancy in the source and loss rates of the different constituents as well as in the determination of the spatial distribution of the atmosphere and its variation with time. The existence of several models based on very different approaches highlights the need of a detailed comparison among them with the final goal of developing a unified model of Europa’s tenuous atmosphere. The availability to the science community of such a model could be of particular interest in view of the planning of the future mission observations (e.g., ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission). We review the existing models of Europa’s tenuous atmosphere and discuss each of their derived characteristics of the neutral environment. We also discuss discrepancies among different models and the assumptions of the plasma environment in the vicinity of Europa. A summary of the existing observations of both the neutral and the plasma environments at Europa is also presented. The characteristics of a global unified model of the tenuous atmosphere are, then, discussed. Finally, we identify needed future experimental work in laboratories and propose some suitable observation strategies for upcoming missions. 相似文献
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The Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) on the New Horizons Mission
Ralph L. McNutt Jr. Stefano A. Livi Reid S. Gurnee Matthew E. Hill Kim A. Cooper G. Bruce Andrews Edwin P. Keath Stamatios M. Krimigis Donald G. Mitchell Barry Tossman Fran Bagenal John D. Boldt Walter Bradley William S. Devereux George C. Ho Stephen E. Jaskulek Thomas W. LeFevere Horace Malcom Geoffrey A. Marcus John R. Hayes G. Ty Moore Nikolaos P. Paschalidis Mark E. Perry Bruce D. Williams Paul Wilson IV Lawrence E. Brown Martha B. Kusterer Jon D. Vandegriff 《Space Science Reviews》2009,145(3-4):381-381