[HTML][HTML] The JPL planetary and lunar ephemerides DE440 and DE441

RS Park, WM Folkner, JG Williams… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The planetary and lunar ephemerides called DE440 and DE441 have been generated by
fitting numerically integrated orbits to ground-based and space-based observations …

Observations, meteorites, and models: a preflight assessment of the composition and formation of (16) Psyche

LT Elkins‐Tanton, E Asphaug, JF Bell III… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Some years ago, the consensus was that asteroid (16) Psyche was almost entirely metal.
New data on density, radar properties, and spectral signatures indicate that the asteroid is …

Distinguishing the origin of asteroid (16) Psyche

LT Elkins-Tanton, E Asphaug, JF Bell III… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
The asteroid (16) Psyche may be the metal-rich remnant of a differentiated planetesimal, or it
may be a highly reduced, metal-rich asteroidal material that never differentiated. The NASA …

The global shape, gravity field, and libration of Enceladus

RS Park, N Mastrodemos, RA Jacobson… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In order to improve our understanding of the interior structure of Saturn's small moon
Enceladus, we reanalyze radiometric tracking and onboard imaging data acquired by the …

Impact-driven mobilization of deep crustal brines on dwarf planet Ceres

CA Raymond, AI Ermakov, JC Castillo-Rogez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System, appears to be a relict ocean world.
Data collected by NASA's Dawn spacecraft provided evidence that global aqueous …

Ceres: Astrobiological target and possible ocean world

JC Castillo-Rogez, M Neveu, JEC Scully, CH House… - Astrobiology, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Ceres, the most water-rich body in the inner solar system after Earth, has recently been
recognized to have astrobiological importance. Chemical and physical measurements …

Validation of stereophotoclinometric shape models of asteroid (101955) Bennu during the OSIRIS-REx mission

MM Al Asad, LC Philpott, CL Johnson… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid (101955) Bennu relied on the production of real-
time shape models for both spacecraft navigation and scientific analysis. The primary …

The Psyche gravity investigation

MT Zuber, RS Park, LT Elkins-Tanton, JF Bell III… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
The objective of the NASA Psyche mission gravity science investigation is to map the mass
distribution within asteroid (16) Psyche to elucidate interior structure and to resolve the …

AstroVision: Towards autonomous feature detection and description for missions to small bodies using deep learning

T Driver, KA Skinner, M Dor, P Tsiotras - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Missions to small celestial bodies rely heavily on optical feature tracking for characterization
of and relative navigation around the target body. While deep learning has led to great …

High-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos from stereophotoclinometry

CM Ernst, RT Daly, RW Gaskell, OS Barnouin… - Earth, Planets and …, 2023 - Springer
We created high-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos using
stereophotoclinometry and united images from Viking Orbiter, Phobos 2, Mars Global …