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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
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Spin states of asteroids in the Eos collisional family

, 2017
Eos family was created during a catastrophic impact about 1.3 Gyr ago. Rotation states of individual family members contain information about the history of the whole population.
Alí-Lagoa, V., Antonini, P., Arnold, L., Audejean, M., Bachschmidt, M., Behrend, R., Bernasconi, L., Bolin, B., Brunetto, L., Casulli, S., Cibulková, H., de Groot, H., Delbo', M., Dymock, R., Esseiva, N., Esteban, M., Gerteis, O., Gully, H., Hamanowa, H., Hamanowa, H., Hanuš, J., Jedicke, R., Krafft, P., Kušnirák, P., Lehký, M., Manzini, F., Marchis, F., Michelet, J., Morelle, E., Oey, J., Pilcher, F., Pravec, P., Reignier, F., Roy, R., Salom, P. A., Warner, B. D., Ďurech, J.   +36 more
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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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Early evolutionary history of the seed

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman, Alan R. T. Spencer, Jason Hilton   +2 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
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Puzzling rotation of asteroid 288 Glauke [PDF]

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2003
Most asteroids rotate about their axis of maximum moment of inertia. However, for several small asteroids with very slow rotation rates, the damping time scale is expected to be longer than the age of the Solar System, implying that these objects may exhibit non-principal axis rotation.
A. Kryszczyńska, T. Kwiatkowski, T. Michałowski   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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

Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013
Photometric observations of asteroids show that some of them are in non-principal axis rotation state (free precession), called tumbling. Collisions between asteroids have been proposed as a possible asteroid rotation excitation mechanism. We simulated subcatastrophic collisions between asteroids of various physical and material parameters to find out ...
Henych, T., Pravec, P.
openaire   +2 more sources

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen, Yixin Zhu, Mingxia Bao, Ting Zhang, Jun Wu, Jingbin Hao, Dezheng Hua, Xinhua Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source