A walk around the comet with the Rosetta Plasma Consortium
Abstract
The Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) instrument package is designed to study: i) the microscopic and macroscopic structure of the interaction region of the comet with the solar wind, ii) the evolution of the development of cometary activity, iii) the inner coma structure, dynamics and aeronomy, and iv) the physical properties of the cometary nucleus and surface. The accommodation of the RPC sensors on the Rosetta spacecraft is illustrated in Figure 1.
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