... trace their heritage to the interstellar medium from which the protosolar nebula eventually emerged. The most recent cometary space mission, Rosetta , carried instruments designed to characterize, in unprecedented detail, the organic species in comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). Rosetta...

... science communication: make good use of our many enthusiastic and convincing (and young!) faces as communicators, and make more use of audio-visual tools. More broadly, we could learn much from the comet researchers: no one seriously questions the value of the Rosetta mission, although the benefits...

... Space Agency's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ( Meech 2017 ). Molecular species that sublimate directly from a comet's nucleus are called “parent molecules” and their photo-dissociation products are called “daughter species”. Most of the species observed at optical wavelengths...

... Grady M , Wright I , Engrand C , Siljestrom S ( 2018 ) The Rosetta Mission and the chemistry of organic species in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko . Elements 14 : 95 – 100 Hartogh P and 12 coauthors ( 2011 ) Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley...

... mission (Grady et al. 2018 this issue), there had been close encounters with six other comets ( Fig. 1 ). Rosetta included both a rendezvous spacecraft for extended measurements near the comet and a lander, whereas all previous missions had been flybys. In addition to the close flybys, the Japanese...

.../Wild 2, and Rosetta, which analysed in situ volatiles released by comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P/C-G), have drastically changed our view. At the CRPG, we were lucky to be involved in both of these missions, being in charge of the analysis of noble gases in the cometary samples...

... a continuing stream of discoveries of new extra-solar planetary systems. Before too long, if all goes to plan, we have the promise of new insights into Titan and somewhat later the first proper investigation into a comet with the Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency. These are, of course, early days...

... Yaxcopoil-1 Drilling Consortium at Chicxulub. He was involved with pilot studies regarding asteroid and comet sampling missions with ESA and NASA committees, including the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. With scientists from the DLR (Deutsches Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrt) and Ernst...

... micrometeorites (MMs), and in cometary particles returned by the Stardust mission and studied in situ by the Rosetta mission. The study of organics in extraterrestrial materials is an inherently difficult activity. Most extraterrestrial materials contain only a few weight percent organics, which...

.... , and Tozzi , G. ( 1998 ) Virtis: An imaging spectrometer for the Rosetta mission . Planetary and Space Science , 46 , 1291 – 1304 . Coradini , A. , Capaccioni , F. , Drossart , P. , Arnold , G. , Ammannito , E. , Angrilli , F. , Barucci , A. , Bellucci , G...

... II), and the multispectral Sentinel-2 sensor (Scenario III). A stepwise multiple linear regression method was used for each scenario to derive STFs. We further tested laboratory- and soil-map-based HYPRES and Rosetta pedotransfer functions (PTFs) to parameterize MvG parameters and thus provide soil...

... surface. Observations of the nucleus of comet 67P by the Rosetta mission revealed the absence of phyllosilicate, the scarcity of water ice on its surface, and the presence of a peculiar signature in the 3-µm region. This spectral signature has been attributed to a mixture of ammonium salts and organic...

... that enter the inner solar system and begin to outgas (Zolensky and Grady 2018 this issue). Micrometeorites likely derive from comets and asteroids (see Elements 2016, v12, n3). Space missions to comets and asteroids. Recent missions (such as the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P...

... and in their relationship with interstellar materials. However, after the multi-spacecraft visit at comet Halley in 1986, only a few missions have specifically targeted comets. These include Deep Impact ( A’Hearn et al. 2005 ), Stardust ( Brownlee et al. 2003 , 2004 ), and Rosetta (Schwehm et al. 2006), the latter now...

... Modulus Ptolemy instrument/Rosetta lander/ESA Current mission (launched 2004) Modulus Ptolemy Evolved Gas Analyser instrument on board Rosetta (ESA mission to characterize the comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) includes a miniaturized GC/MS system with an ion trap mass spectrometer particularly developed...

...-rich bodies. The approach taken by the Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT), on board the ESA Rosetta mission, used antennas on both a lander and an orbiter to create a tomographic image of the comet via transillumination. This system consisted of two crossed half-wave...

... edition of a 1997 conference volume. Since the publication of the original work, there have been theoretical and practical advances in this fast-moving field. For example, several cometary and asteroid sampling missions are either, like Rosetta and Hayabusa , in progress or, like Stardust , have...

... system. For example, samples from primitive carbon-rich asteroids are going to be returned to Earth in the early 2020s by two dedicated space missions: Hayabusa2, from Japan's JAXA, and OSIRIS-REx from USA's NASA. The milligram-sized samples, alongside data from cometary missions (Europe's ESA Rosetta...