Heliocentric distance dependence of zodiacal light observed by Hayabusa2#
Earth, Planets and Space, 2023 Zodiacal light (ZL) is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) at optical wavelengths. The spatial distribution of IDPs in the Solar System may hold an important key to understanding the evolution of the Solar System and material ...
Kohji Tsumura +23 more
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High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases as Minerals
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 11-23., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Oliver Tschauner
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The feasibility of using an L1 positioned dust cloud as a method of space-based geoengineering [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper a method of geoengineering is proposed involving clouds of dust placed in the vicinity of the L1 point as an alternative to the use of thin film reflectors.
Bewick, Russell +5 more
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Kinematic models of the interplanetary magnetic field [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2019 Current knowledge on the description of the interplanetary magnetic field is reviewed with an emphasis on the kinematic approach as well as the analytic expression.
C. Lhotka, Y. Narita
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Investigation of Dust Grains by Optical Tweezers for Space Applications
The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 Cosmic dust plays a dominant role in the universe, especially in the formation of stars and planetary systems. Furthermore, the surface of cosmic dust grains is the benchwork where molecular hydrogen and simple organic compounds are formed. We manipulate
A. Magazzù +13 more
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Heliotropic dust rings for Earth climate engineering [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the concept of a Sun-pointing elliptical Earth ring comprised of dust grains to offset global warming. A new family of non-Keplerian periodic orbits, under the effects of solar radiation pressure and the Earth's J(2) oblateness ...
Lücking, C. +12 more
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Interplanetary Dust as a Foreground for the LiteBIRD CMB Satellite Mission
The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2021 As ever-more sensitive experiments are made in the quest for primordial CMB B Modes, the number of potentially significant astrophysical contaminants becomes larger as well. Thermal emission from interplanetary dust, for example, has been detected by the
Ken Ganga +2 more
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Dust observations with antenna measurements and its prospects for observations with Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2019 The electric and magnetic field instrument suite FIELDS on board the NASA Parker Solar Probe and the radio and plasma waves instrument RPW on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission that explore the inner heliosphere are sensitive to signals generated by dust ...
I. Mann +13 more
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Electrochromic orbit control for smart-dust devices [PDF]
, 2012 Recent advances in MEMS (micro electromechanical systems) technology are leading to spacecraft which are the shape and size of computer chips, so-called SpaceChips, or ‘smart dust devices’.
Colombo, Camilla +3 more
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Plasma Accelerator Utilizing the Medium of Near-Earth Space for Orbital Transfer Vehicles
Applied Sciences, 2023 The development of plasma accelerators for spacecraft propulsion that can capture space matter and energy shows great promise for spacecraft advancement.
Alexander R. Karimov +3 more
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