Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in space applications: Review and prospects

H Saeidfirozeh, P Kubelík, V Laitl, A Křivková… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review describes the principles and summarizes the challenges of analytical methods
based on optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in space applications, with a particular focus …

A review of sampling exploration and devices for extraterrestrial celestial bodies

X Zhang, G Zhang, H **e, M Gao, Y Wen - Space Science Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Sampling soil or rocks from extraterrestrial celestial bodies is the essential step to detecting
the existence of water and life in celestial bodies, it is also an important channel to obtain …

Thermal fatigue as the origin of regolith on small asteroids

M Delbo, G Libourel, J Wilkerson, N Murdoch, P Michel… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Space missions, and thermal infrared observations have shown that small asteroids
(kilometre-sized or smaller) are covered by a layer of centimetre-sized or smaller particles …

Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity

S Cambioni, M Delbo, G Poggiali, C Avdellidou… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Spacecraft missions have observed regolith blankets of unconsolidated subcentimetre
particles on stony asteroids,–. Telescopic data have suggested the presence of regolith …

Touchdown of the Hayabusa spacecraft at the Muses Sea on Itokawa

H Yano, T Kubota, H Miyamoto, T Okada, D Scheeres… - Science, 2006 - science.org
After global observations of asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa spacecraft, we
selected the smooth terrain of the Muses Sea for two touchdowns carried out on 19 and 25 …

OSIRIS-APEX: an OSIRIS-REx extended mission to asteroid apophis

DN DellaGiustina, MC Nolan, AT Polit… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

Preliminary mission profile of Hera's Milani CubeSat

F Ferrari, V Franzese, M Pugliatti, C Giordano… - Advances in Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
CubeSats offer a flexible and low-cost option to increase the scientific and technological
return of small-body exploration missions. ESA's Hera mission, the European component of …

Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The role of cohesion

DJ Scheeres, CM Hartzell, P Sánchez, M Swift - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
The scaling of physical forces to the extremely low ambient gravitational acceleration
regimes found on the surfaces of small asteroids is performed. Resulting from this, it is found …

Asteroid thermophysical modeling

M Delbo, M Mueller, JP Emery, B Rozitis… - Asteroids iv, 2015 - books.google.com
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 orbital distribution of near-Earth objects inside Earth's orbit

S Greenstreet, H Ngo, B Gladman - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
Canada's Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), set to launch in early 2012,
will search for and track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), tuning its search to best detect objects …