Abstract
SESAME is an international instrument complex carried by the Rosetta Lander. Most of the instrument sensors are mounted within the soles of the landing gear feet in order to provide good contact with or proximity to the cometary surface. The main aim of these instruments is to measure physical properties of the cometary surface layer and of emitted particles by acoustic and electrical methods. The scientific goals, the measuring principles and performance parameters are described. In addition, we discuss the impact by selecting 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the new target comet.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Grard, R. (1990a). A quadrupolar array for measuring the complex permittivity of the ground: application to Earth prospection and planetary exploration, Meas. Sci. Technol., 1: 295–301.
Grard, R. (1990b). A quadrupole system for measuring in situ the complex permittivity of materials: application to penetrators and landers for planetary exploration, Meas. Sci. Technol., 1: 801–806.
Jockers, K., Credner, T. and Bonev, T. (1998). Water ions, dust and CN in comet 46P/Wirtanen, Astron. Astrophys. Letters, 335: L56–L59.
Kidger, M.R. (2003). Dust production and coma morphology of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during the 2002–2003 apparition, Astron. Astrophys., 408: 767–774.
Kochan, H., Feibig, W., Konopka, U., Kretschmer, M., M¨ohlmann, D., Seidensticker, K.J., Arnold, W., Gebhardt, W. and Licht, R. (2000). CASSE–The Rosetta Lander Comet Acoustic Surface Sounding Experiment-status of some aspects, the technical realisation and laboratory simulations, Planet. Space Sci., 48:385–399.
Lamy, P.L., Toth, I., Jorda, L., Weaver, H.A. and A’ Hearn, M. (1998). The Nucleus and Inner Coma of Comet 46P/Wirtanen, Astron. Astrophys. Letters, 335: L25–L29.
Lamy, P.L., Toth, I., Weaver, H., Jorda, L. and Kaasalainen, M. (2003). The nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the new target of the Rosetta mission, DPS 35th Meeting, Monterey, USA.
ESA, Rosetta Lander Mission Analysis Working Group, Comet Surface Engineering Model (1999). RO–ESC–RP–5006, Issue 1.
Tancredi, G., Fern´andez, J.A., Rickmann, H. and Licandro, J. (2000). A catalog of observed nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter family comets, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 146: 73–90.
Trautner, R., Grard, R. and Hamelin, M. (2003). Detection of subsurface ice and water deposits on Mars with a mutual impedance probe, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (E10): 8047.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Seidensticker, K.J. et al. (2004). The Rosetta Lander Experiment Sesame and the New Target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In: Colangeli, L., Epifani, E.M., Palumbo, P. (eds) The New Rosetta Targets. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 311. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2573-0_28
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2573-0_28
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-6683-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-2573-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive