A walk around the comet with the Rosetta Plasma Consortium

Jean-Pierre Lebreton (1)

1 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

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.

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]

Jean-Pierre Lebreton. A walk around the comet with the Rosetta Plasma Consortium. European Planetary Science Congress 2014, Sep 2014, Cascais, Portugal. pp.2581-2650. ⟨insu-03577339⟩