Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and
robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange …

The VIRTIS (Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the
Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence of carbon-bearing compounds on the nucleus of …

The field of asteroid thermophysical modeling has experienced an extraordinary growth in
the last 10 years, as new thermal-infrared data became available for hundreds of thousands …

The Rosetta spacecraft has investigated comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from large
heliocentric distances to its perihelion passage and beyond. We trace the seasonal and …

INTRODUCTION Dwarf planet Ceres' low average-density (2162±3 kg m− 3) indicates that it
must contain considerable water. Water is likely a key component in the chemical evolution …

Observations of cometary nuclei have revealed a very limited amount of surface water
ice,,,,,,, which is insufficient to explain the observed water outgassing. This was clearly …

Although water vapour is the main species observed in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–
Gerasimenko, and water is the major constituent of cometary nuclei,, limited evidence for …

Context. Since the orbital insertion of the Rosetta spacecraft, comet 67P/Churyumov-
Gerasimenko (67P) has been mapped by OSIRIS camera and VIRTIS spectro-imager …

Aims. We present a study of the spectrophotometric properties of dwarf planet Ceres in the
visual-to-infrared (VIS-IR) spectral range by means of hyper-spectral images acquired by the …

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most abundant species in cometary nuclei, but because
of its high volatility, CO2 ice is generally only found beneath the surface. We report the …