... 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...

... researchers: no one seriously questions the value of the Rosetta mission, although the benefits are hard to put into monetary terms. But what untold number of children have been inspired by the thought of landing a probe on a moving target after more than a decade racing though space – and then beaming back...

... ). The Rosetta mission also observed strong dichotomies in the relative ratios of CO 2 /H 2 O between the northern and southern hemispheres of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, as well as changing mixing ratios of less abundant molecules, as seen from in situ near-IR measurements ( Hässig et al. 2015 ). However...

... was Co-I of COSIMA, a dust analyzer on board the Rosetta mission, and was involved in two initial analysis teams for the characterization of Ryugu samples brought back by the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission. Bradley De Gregorio is a research scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC...

... orders of magnitude (see Fig. 2 ). In the latest giant step, the Rosetta spacecraft orbited, and deposited a probe on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, as described by Grady et al. (2018 this issue). In many ways, we live at the perfect time to be “cometologists”. However, the mission that most...

... by spacecraft. Prior to the investigation of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the European Space Agency's Rosetta 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...

... 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...

... measurements performed by analysers on past spacecrafts lacked precision. However, two recent missions, Stardust, which sampled grains from comet 81P/Wild 2, and Rosetta, which analysed in situ volatiles released by comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P/C-G), have drastically changed our view...

... 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...

... 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 are usually finely dispersed and amorphous...

... and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on ESA’s Rosetta mission and a similar instrument on NASA’s Dawn mission (where it is called ‘VIR’) ( Coradine et al. , 1998 : Coradina et al. , 2007 ; DeSanctis et al. , 2017). The Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) and Galileo Near...

... 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...

... organic molecules in the icy particles of a protoplanetary disk were detected using NASA’s newly launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ( Yang et al. 2022 ). Previously, the Rosetta space mission detected large organic molecules in the dust particles of comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P/CG), which...

... 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...

... 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...

.... The International Rosetta Mission, launched by ESA, is anticipated to yield high quality in situ isotopic measurements of cometary materials. This spacecraft will rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G) in 2014, and it will study the nucleus of comet C-G and its environment in detail for a period...

... 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 for isotope ratio measurements of solid...

..., have been detected in comets ( Biver and Bockelée-Morvan 2019 ). In-situ space missions, such as the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko have further identified more than 60 individual organic molecules ( Altwegg et al. 2017 ), including glycine, alcohols, carbonyls, amines, nitriles...