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Crater Observing Bioinspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA)

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Crater Observing Bio‐inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA) is a modular, snake‐inspired robot that addresses the mobility challenges of extraterrestrial exploration sites such as Shackleton Crater. Incorporating snake‐like gaits and tumbling locomotion, COBRA navigates both uneven surfaces and steep crater walls.
Adarsh Salagame, Henry Noyes, Eric Sihite, Arash Kalantari, Alireza Ramezani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rotation Periods of Asteroids Determined With Bootstrap Convex Inversion From ATLAS Photometry

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022
The rotation period is one of the fundamental physical characteristics of asteroids. It can be determined from photometric measurements by standard methods of time-series period analysis or by creating a physical model of an asteroid with the rotation ...
Josef Ďurech, Michael Vávra, Radim Vančo, Nicolas Erasmus   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inelastic Dissipation in Wobbling Asteroids and Comets [PDF]

, 1998
Asteroids and comets dissipate energy when they rotate about the axis different from the axis of the maximal moment of inertia. We show that the most efficient internal relaxation happens at the double frequency of body's tumbling.
A. Lazarian, Hudson, M. Efroimsky, Ostro, Ostro   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Survey on AI‐Enabled Computer Vision Technologies and Applications for Space Robotic Missions

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements and challenges in Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐enabled computer vision (CV) techniques for space robotic missions, spanning critical phases such as Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL), orbital operations, and planetary surface exploration.
Maciej Quoos, Steven Kay, Julia Wajoras, Robert Field, Evridiki V. Ntagiou, Fakher Mohammad, Yang Gao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermophysical Model of (269) Justitia—Main Belt Asteroid Possibly Implanted from Trans-Neptunian Region

The Planetary Science Journal
Asteroid Justitia is a special main-belt object, being an extremely red body with a steeper spectral slope than any other D-type asteroid. Conversely, its spectral and polarimetric properties resemble organics-rich Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects ...
Anna Marciniak, Antoine Choukroun, Julia Perła, Waldemar Ogłoza, Robert Szakáts, Pierre Antonini, Raoul Behrend, Géza Csörnyei, Marek Dróżdż, Marcel Fauvaud, Stéphane Fauvaud, Adrian Jones, Dong-Heun Kim, Myung-Jin Kim, Viktor Kudak, Iga Mieczkowska, Erika Pakštienė, Vasyl Perig, Eda Sonbas   +18 more
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Determination of 1929 Asteroid Rotation Periods from WISE Data

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
We used 22 μ m (W4) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observations of 4420 asteroids to analyze lightcurves, and determined spin period estimates for 1929 asteroids.
Adrian L. H. Lam, Jean-Luc Margot, Emily Whittaker, Nathan Myhrvold   +3 more
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Rotationally Resolved Spectroscopy of Asteroid Pairs: No Spectral Variation Suggests Fission is followed by Settling of Dust

, 2014
We examine the spectral properties of asteroid pairs that were disrupted in the last 2 Myrs to examine whether the site of the fission can be revealed.
Binzel, Richard P., DeMeo, Francesca, Moskovitz, Nicholas, Polishook, David   +3 more
core   +1 more source

What mechanisms dominate the activity of Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon? [PDF]

, 2018
A long-term sublimation model to explain how Phaethon could provide the Geminid stream is proposed. We find that it would take $\sim6$ Myr or more for Phaethon to lose all of its internal ice (if ever there was) in its present orbit.
Ip, Wing-Huen, Spohn, Tilman, Yu, LiangLiang   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Microgravity‐induced changes in skeletal muscle and possible countermeasures: What we can learn from bed rest and human space studies

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite exercise countermeasures to sustain health and performance in spaceflight, complete maintenance of muscle mass and functions in microgravity is still not possible for most astronauts. The principal cause of the limited effectiveness of existing exercise countermeasures is the difficulty in achieving full loading forces in space.
Alessandra Bosutti, Bergita Ganse, Nicola A. Maffiuletti, Rob C. I. Wüst, Gustav J. Strijkers, Andy Sanderson, Hans Degens   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

First Results of the VLBI Experiment on Radar Location of the Asteroid 2012 DA14

Open Astronomy, 2013
An international VLBI experiment on radio location of the asteroid 2012 DA14 was organized on 2013 February 15–16, during its flyby close to Earth. The purpose of observations was to investigate and specify orbital parameters of the asteroid, as well as ...
Nechaeva M., Antipenko A., Bezrukov D., Bezrukovs Vl., Dementjev A., Dugin N., Jekabsons N., Khutornoy R., Klapers M., Konovalenko A., Kulishenko V., Nabatov A., Nesteruk V., Pupillo G., Reznichenko A., Salerno E., Shmeld I., Skirmante K., Tikhomirov Yu., Voytyuk V.   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source