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View article: New MEX-ASPERA-3 Ion Mass Analyzer High-Level Data In The ESA's Planetary Science Archive
New MEX-ASPERA-3 Ion Mass Analyzer High-Level Data In The ESA's Planetary Science Archive Open
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express (MEX) mission to Mars has been returning valuable scientific data for 21+ years. This data is available to the public for free via the Planetary Science Archive (PSA), which houses the raw, ca…
View article: Archiving JUICE data in the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Sciences Archive (PSA)
Archiving JUICE data in the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Sciences Archive (PSA) Open
IntroductionESA’s JUpiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission was launched on April 14th, 2023 and is now on its way to Jupiter and its icy moons, arriving in 2031. After a Jupiter Touring phase of about 3.3 years, JUICE will change its orb…
View article: Automatic classification of Martian impact craters using deep learning: a new tool to improve planetary surface dating
Automatic classification of Martian impact craters using deep learning: a new tool to improve planetary surface dating Open
Introduction Impact craters are essential markers for reconstructing the geological history of planetary surfaces [1]. On Mars, where no absolute radiometric dating has yet been conducted in-situ, the density of craters remains the main ch…
View article: ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: what’s new, and what’s to come
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: what’s new, and what’s to come Open
IntroductionThe Planetary Science Archive (PSA) of the European Space Agency hosts all the data from ESA’s planetary missions. It aims to provide a single entry-point for discovering, filtering and using the data, all of which adopt the Pl…
View article: Use of Open Source Software in the ESA Planetary Science Archive
Use of Open Source Software in the ESA Planetary Science Archive Open
The European Space Agency (ESA) integrates open-source software to manage, visualize, and distribute planetary data, focusing on Mars and supporting global scientific collaboration through the Planetary Science Archive (PSA). This advanced…
View article: Data in the ESA Planetary Science Archive: A cookbook to access them 
Data in the ESA Planetary Science Archive: A cookbook to access them  Open
The ESA Planetary Science Archive (PSA) hosted at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC) is a multi-mission archive currently supporting ten planetary missions, from missions beyond their post-operations phase to missions curr…
View article: Six Years of ExoMars TGO Active Archiving – Lessons Learned
Six Years of ExoMars TGO Active Archiving – Lessons Learned Open
IntroductionThe ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was launched in 2016 and Science Phase started in April 2018. Apart from the failure of one sub-instrument, the spacecraft and payload remain healthy and in normal operations today. The missi…
View article: ESA's Planetary Science Archive: looking to the future
ESA's Planetary Science Archive: looking to the future Open
IntroductionThe Planetary Science Archive (PSA) of the European Space Agency (ESA) has recently released a new user interface and APIs to access ESA's planetary data. These updates, along with data migration activities, aim to keep the mis…
View article: ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: Improved interoperability
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: Improved interoperability Open
Introduction: The Planetary Science Archive (PSA)[1] of the European Space Agency (ESA) has, over the past year, incorporated new interfaces for accessing the data. These new interfaces (an improved SFTP[2], the PSA PDS[3] API[4] and ESA D…
View article: Automatic crater detection and classification using Faster R-CNN
Automatic crater detection and classification using Faster R-CNN Open
Introduction: Understanding the distribution and characteristics of impact craters on planetary surfaces is essential if we want to understand the geological processes such as tectonic deformation, volcanism1, erosion, transport, and impac…
View article: Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta Open
Context. The MIDAS (Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System) atomic force microscope on board the Rosetta comet orbiter investigated and measured the 3D topography of a few hundred of nm to tens of μm sized dust particles of 67P/Churyumov-Geras…
View article: Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta II. Particle shape descriptors and pristineness evaluation
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta II. Particle shape descriptors and pristineness evaluation Open
The MIDAS (Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System) atomic force microscope on board the Rosetta comet orbiter investigated and measured the 3D topography of a few hundred nm to tens of $μ$m sized dust particles of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko wit…
View article: The outcome of plant-microbial competition for N in a wheat system and the implications for yield and N<sub>2</sub>O mitigation
The outcome of plant-microbial competition for N in a wheat system and the implications for yield and N<sub>2</sub>O mitigation Open
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) with a global warming potential 265 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) over 100 years. Contributing approximately 70% of global anthropogenic N2O emissions, agriculture represents the la…
View article: Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta Open
Context. The Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (MIDAS) atomic force microscope (AFM) on board the Rosetta comet orbiter has been dedicated to the collection and 3D topographical investigation of cometary dust in the size range of a few hu…
View article: Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta. I. Dust particle catalog and statistics
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on board Rosetta. I. Dust particle catalog and statistics Open
We aim to catalog all dust particles collected and analyzed by MIDAS, together with their main statistical properties such as size, height, basic shape descriptors, and collection time. Furthermore, we aim to present the scientific results…
View article: Sensitivity of modelled cometary gas production on the properties of the surface layer of the nucleus
Sensitivity of modelled cometary gas production on the properties of the surface layer of the nucleus Open
Explanation of the observed gas activity based on the parameters of the comet’s nucleus is not an obvious matter. Solutions based on certain thermal models can be obtained, but the use of arbitrary values for poorly known model parameters …
View article: Rosetta Zoo: finding changes on comet 67P
Rosetta Zoo: finding changes on comet 67P Open
<p>Comets are generally considered to be relatively pristine objects, having spent most of their existence at large heliocentric distances where there is not enough energy to significantly transform these objects. Comets, therefore, …
View article: New MEX-HRSC radiometrically calibrated data released in the ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive
New MEX-HRSC radiometrically calibrated data released in the ESA’s Planetary Science Archive Open
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA) Mars Express (MEX) mission to Mars has been returning valuable scientific data for ~18 years.&#160;&#160;This data is ava…
View article: ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive: present and future&#160;
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: present and future  Open
<p class="p1">&#160;</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Introduction: </strong>The present abstract is intended to show the current ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive (PSA) <span class…
View article: ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive: current status and future plans
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive: current status and future plans Open
<div> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The European Space Agency&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive (PSA) is the home for all scientific data from ESA&#8217;s planetary missions. Adopting the NASA PDS standa…
View article: Primitiveness of cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta
Primitiveness of cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta Open
<p>Comets are thought to have preserved dust particles from the beginning of Solar System formation, providing a unique insight into dust growth mechanisms. The Rosetta mission offered the best opportunity to investigate nearly prist…
View article: The effect of hierarchical structure of the surface dust layer on the modelling of comet gas production
The effect of hierarchical structure of the surface dust layer on the modelling of comet gas production Open
A hierarchical model of microstructure of cometary dust seems to accurately capture the morphological complexity of these particles as observed by the Rosetta mission to the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The main aim of this work is to invest…
View article: ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive efforts to support the scientific community
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive efforts to support the scientific community Open
<p class="p1"><strong>Introduction:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&#160; </span>With new missions being selected, missions moving to post-operations, and missions starting…
View article: BepiColombo Science Data Processing &amp; Quick-Look Analysis
BepiColombo Science Data Processing & Quick-Look Analysis Open
The joint ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury comprises two orbiters and a solar-electric transfer module, currently in a stack configuration. The BepiColombo spacecraft stack flew by the Earth on 10th April 2020 and will perform eight…
View article: ESA&#8217;s Planetary Science Archive, updates since last year!
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive, updates since last year! Open
With new missions being selected, missions moving to post-operations, and missions starting their journey to various targets in the Solar System, the European Space Agency’s Planetary Science Archive [1] (http://psa.esa.int) (PSA) is…
View article: Dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko collected by Rosetta/MIDAS: classification and extension to the nanometer scale
Dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko collected by Rosetta/MIDAS: classification and extension to the nanometer scale Open
Context. The properties of the smallest subunits of cometary dust contain information on their origin and clues to the formation of planetesimals and planets. Compared to interplanetary dust particles or particles collected during the Star…
View article: Classification of comet 67P dust at the nanometre scale with MIDAS on-board Rosetta
Classification of comet 67P dust at the nanometre scale with MIDAS on-board Rosetta Open
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View article: Cometary dust : structure at the nanometre scale
Cometary dust : structure at the nanometre scale Open
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