The international Rosetta mission was launched in 2004 and consists of the orbiter
spacecraft Rosetta and the lander Philae. The aim of the mission is to map the comet …

The upper atmospheres of unmagnetized solar system bodies interact more directly with
their local plasma environment than their counterparts on magnetized bodies such as Earth …

We report on the in‐flight performance of the Solar Wind Ion Analyzer (SWIA) and
observations of the Mars‐solar wind interaction made during the Mars Atmosphere and …

SpiceyPy is an open-source, MIT licensed Python package that provides a pythonic interface
to nearly all of the C SPICE toolkit N66. SpiceyPy was developed in Python using the ctypes …

We propose to identify the main sources of ionization of the plasma in the coma of comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at different locations in the coma and to quantify their relative …

Rosetta has followed comet 67P from low activity at more than 3.6 au heliocentric distance to
high activity at perihelion (1.24 au) and then out again. We provide a general overview of the …

One of the primary objectives of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, a suite of five plasma
instruments on-board the Rosetta spacecraft, is to observe the formation and evolution of …

The Rosetta mission provided detailed observations of the growth of a cavity in the solar
wind around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. As the comet approached the Sun, the …

The Rosetta spacecraft has escorted comet 67P/Churyumov‐Gerasimenko since 6 August
2014 and has offered an unprecedented opportunity to study plasma physics in the coma …

Context. The ESA/Rosetta mission made it possible to monitor the plasma environment of a
comet, from near aphelion to perihelion conditions. To understand the complex dynamics …