In the past few years, several major space missions have been completed (eg, Deep Impact,
LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1, Stardust, Hayabusa), and a number of spacecraft are currently …

Abstract The MAJIS (Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the
ESA JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer) mission is an imaging spectrometer operating in the …

Saturn's rings consist of a huge number of water ice particles, with a tiny addition of rocky
material. They form a flat disk, as the result of an interplay of angular momentum …

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 …

Aims. We investigate the nucleus photometric properties of the comet 67P/Churyumov-
Gerasimenko as observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer …

The surface of Pluto as it is understood on the eve of the encounter of the New Horizons
spacecraft (mid-2015) consists of a spatially heterogeneous mix of solid N 2, CH 4, CO, C 2 …

The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn provided a close-up study of the gas giant planet, as
well as its rings, moons, and magnetosphere. The Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in …

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 …

Abstract From August to November 2014 the Rosetta orbiter has performed an extensive
observation campaign aimed at the characterization of 67P/CG nucleus properties and to …

Context. The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource
Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) has been observing near-Earth asteroid …