AMBITION -- Comet Nucleus Cryogenic Sample Return (White paper for ESA's Voyage 2050 programme)

D. Bockelée-Morvan 1 Gianrico Filacchione 2 Kathrin Altwegg 3 Eleonora Bianchi 4 Martin Bizzarro 5, 6 Jürgen Blum 7 Lydie Bonal 4 Fabrizio Capaccioni 2 Claudio Codella 4, 8 Mathieu Choukroun 9 Hervé Cottin 10 Björn Davidsson 9 Maria Cristina de Sanctis 2 Maria Drozdovskaya 11 Cécile Engrand 12 Marina Galand 13, 14 Carsten Güttler 15 Pierre Henri 16, 17 Alain Herique 4 Stavro Ivanoski 18 Rosita Kokotanekova 19 Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd 20 Kelly E. Miller 21 Alessandra Rotundi 2 Maria Schönbächler 22 Colin Snodgrass 23 Nicolas Thomas 3 Cecilia Tubiana 15 Stefan Ulamec 24 Jean-Baptiste Vincent 25
1 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
2 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
3 Physikalisches Institut [Bern]
4 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
5 STARPLAN - Centre for Star and Planet Formation
6 Natural History Museum of Denmark
7 IGEP - Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig]
8 OAA - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
9 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
10 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
11 CSH - Center for Space and Habitability
12 CSNSM - Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière
13 Space and Atmospheric Physics Group [London]
Blackett Laboratory
14 Department of Physics [London]
15 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
16 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
17 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
18 OAT - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
19 ESO - European Southern Observatory
20 IMPEC - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
21 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
22 D-ERDW - Department of Earth Sciences [ETH Zürich]
23 IfA - Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh]
24 DLR - German Aerospace Center
25 DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
Abstract : This white paper proposes that AMBITION, a Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission, be a cornerstone of ESA's Voyage 2050 programme. We summarise some of the most important questions still open in cometary science after the successes of the Rosetta mission, many of which require sample analysis using techniques that are only possible in laboratories on Earth. We then summarise measurements, instrumentation and mission scenarios that can address these questions, with a recommendation that ESA select an ambitious cryogenic sample return mission. Rendezvous missions to Main Belt comets and Centaurs are compelling cases for M-class missions, expanding our knowledge by exploring new classes of comets. AMBITION would engage a wide community, drawing expertise from a vast range of disciplines within planetary science and astrophysics. With AMBITION, Europe will continue its leadership in the exploration of the most primitive Solar System bodies.
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Submitted on : Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - 5:00:48 PM
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D. Bockelée-Morvan, Gianrico Filacchione, Kathrin Altwegg, Eleonora Bianchi, Martin Bizzarro, et al.. AMBITION -- Comet Nucleus Cryogenic Sample Return (White paper for ESA's Voyage 2050 programme). 2019. ⟨insu-02197773⟩

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