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most citedBack to the Moon: The Scientific Rationale for Resuming Lunar Surface Exploration

183 citations · 431 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

Microporosity and parent body of the rubble-pile NEA (162173) Ryugu

Wladimir Neumann, Matthias Grott, Mario Trieloff +4

Observations of C-type NEAs and lab investigations of carbonaceous chondritic (CC) meteorites provide strong evidence for a high porosity of C-type asteroids. Boulder microporosity…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 1 cited

Characterization of the MASCOT landing area by Hayabusa2

Stefan Schröder, Naoya Sakatani, Rie Honda +26

Context. After landing on C-type asteroid Ryugu, MASCOT imaged brightly colored, submillimeter-sized inclusions in a small rock. Hayabusa2 successfully returned a sample of small p…

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.EP2021★ 21 cited

An Extremely Elongated Cloud over Arsia Mons Volcano on Mars: I. Life Cycle

J. Hernández-Bernal, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia +12

We report a previously unnoticed annually repeating phenomenon consisting of the daily formation of an extremely elongated cloud extending as far as 1800 km westward from Arsia Mon…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 8 cited

Spectrophotometric analysis of the Ryugu rock seen by MASCOT: Searching for a carbonaceous chondrite analog

Stefan Schröder, Katharina Otto, Hannah Scharf +11

We analyze images of a rock on Ryugu acquired in situ by MASCam, camera of the MASCOT lander, with the aim of identifying possible carbonaceous chondrite (CC) analogs. The rock's r…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

GAUSS -- A Sample Return Mission to Ceres

Xian Shi, Julie Castillo-Rogez, Henry Hsieh +26

The goal of Project GAUSS is to return samples from the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the most accessible ocean world candidate and the largest reservoir of water in the inner solar…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 11 cited

Ceres' opposition effect observed by the Dawn framing camera

Stefan E. Schröder, Jian-Yang Li, Marc D. Rayman +12

The surface reflectance of planetary regoliths may increase dramatically towards zero phase angle, a phenomenon known as the opposition effect (OE). Two physical processes that are…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 22 cited

Close-up images of the final Philae landing site on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired by the ROLIS camera

S. E. Schröder, S. Mottola, G. Arnold +11

After coming to rest on the night side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the ROLIS camera on-board Rosetta's Philae lander acquired five images of the surface below the lander, f…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 71 cited

The global surface composition of 67P/CG nucleus by Rosetta/VIRTIS. I) Prelanding mission phase

Gianrico Filacchione, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Mauro Ciarniello +27

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 the selection of…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 32 cited

Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini - VIMS. IV. Daytime temperature maps

Gianrico Filacchione, Emiliano D'Aversa, Fabrizio Capaccioni +13

The spectral position of the 3.6 micron continuum peak measured on Cassini-VIMS I/F spectra is used as a marker to infer the temperature of the regolith particles covering the surf…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 54 cited

Surface Albedo and Spectral Variability of Ceres

Jian-Yang Li, Vishnu Reddy, Andreas Nathues +21

Previous observations suggested that Ceres has active but possibly sporadic water outgassing, and possibly varying spectral characteristics in a time scale of months. We used all a…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 183 cited

Back to the Moon: The Scientific Rationale for Resuming Lunar Surface Exploration

I. A. Crawford, M. Anand, C. S. Cockell +4

The lunar geological record has much to tell us about the earliest history of the Solar System, the origin and evolution of the Earth-Moon system, the geological evolution of rocky…