Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvC.T. Russell,C. T. Russell,Christopher Russell,C T Russell

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Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-08-10
Mått156 x 232 x 24 mm
Vikt833 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor396
Upplaga2005
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781402035999

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C. T. Russell has over 40 years experience on space flight missions including Apollo 15 and 16, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, Vega 1 and 2, Phobos, Galileo and Cassini among many others. Previous books in this series under his editorship have included Galileo, Genesis, 2001 Mars Odyssey, and Cassini. He has published over 1100 articles in journals and books on topics of planetary and space physics and won several awards including the AGU’s Fleming and Macelwane medals and COSPAR Space Science prize.

Deep Impact: A Large-Scale Active Experiment on a Cometary Nucleus.- Deep Impact Mission Design.- An Overview of the Instrument Suite for the Deep Impact Mission.- Autonomous Navigation for the Deep Impact Mission Encounter with Comet Tempel 1.- The History and Dynamics of Comet 9P/Tempel 1.- Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus — Comet 9P/Tempel 1.- The Coma of Comet 9P/Tempel 1.- Comet Geology with Deep Impact Remote Sensing.- Expectations for Crater Size and Photometric Evolution from the Deep Impact Collision.- Impact Cratering Theory and Modeling for the Deep Impact Mission: From Mission Planning to Data Analysis.- Expectations for Infrared Spectroscopy of 9P/Tempel 1 from Deep Impact.- The Deep Impact Earth-Based Campaign.- Deep Impact: The Anticipated Flight Data.- Education and Public Outreach for Nasa’s Deep Impact Mission.