ROSETTA ESA's Mission to the Origin of the Solar System [Hardcover]

Comets consist of the most primitive material in the solar system and to understand the earliest epoch of solar system formation, we must investigate the nature of this material. Much of what we know of comets presently comes from remote sensing using Earth-based telescopes. The Rosetta mission is poised to make a dramatic advance in our understanding of comets.

ROSETTA: ESAs Mission to the Origin of the Solar System is partially reprinted, with updates and corrections, from Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 128/1-4, 2007. This is the first hard cover book on Rosetta to discuss science and instrumentation.

Comets consist of the most primitive material in the solar system and to understand the earliest epoch of solar system formation, we must investigate the nature of this material. Much of what we know of comets presently comes from remote sensing using Earth-based telescopes. The Rosetta mission is poised to make a dramatic advance in our understanding of comets.

The ROSETTA Mission: Flying Towards the Origin of the Solar System.- The Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013; Gerasimenko.- Pre-Fly-by Properties of the Rosetta Asteroids Targets 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia.- The Plasma Environment of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013;Gerasimenko Throughout the Rosetta Main Mission.- Dust Environment Modelling of Comet 67P/Churyumov#x2013;Gerasimenko.- Rosetta Ground Segment and Mission Operations.- Scientific Planning and Commanding of the Rosetta Payload.- Alice: The Rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph.- The Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio-wave Transmission (CONSERT).- COSIMA: High Resolution Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer for the Analysis of Cometary Dust Particles Onboard ROSETTA.- The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) Experiment for the Rosetta Mission: Design, Performances and Current Results.- MIDAS: the Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System for the Rosetta Mission.- MIRló8