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most citedScientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

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astro-ph.EP2022★ 5 cited

Detection and characterization of wind-blown charged sand grains on Titan with the DraGMet/EFIELD experiment on Dragonfly

Audrey Chatain, Alice Le Gall, Jean-Jacques Berthelier +5

The EFIELD instrument is part of the geophysics and meteorology sensor package DraGMet on the Dragonfly mission, which will explore the surface of Titan in the mid-2030s. EFIELD co…

astro-ph.EP2022

Moonraker -- Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission

O. Mousis, A. Bouquet, Y. Langevin +50

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, possesses an internal water ocean and jets expelling ocean material into space. Cassini investigations indicated that the subsurface ocean could b…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)

Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier +61

In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest m…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 100 cited

Scientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

O. Mousis, D. H. Atkinson, T. Cavalié +53

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune are the least understood class of planets in our solar system but the most frequently observed type of exoplanets. Presumed to have a small rocky…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 64 cited

Scientific rationale of Saturn's in situ exploration

O. Mousis, L. N. Fletcher, J. -P. Lebreton +47

Remote sensing observations meet some limitations when used to study the bulk atmospheric composition of the giant planets of our solar system. A remarkable example of the superior…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 87 cited

Hot exozodiacal dust resolved around Vega with IOTA/IONIC

D. Defrère, O. Absil, J. -C. Augereau +10

Although debris discs have been detected around a significant number of main-sequence stars, only a few of them are known to harbour hot dust in their inner part where terrestrial…