Kathrin Altwegg
Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Bern
Kathrin Altwegg (right) with Michael R. Meyer
Date
16 December 2015
Host
Michael R. Meyer
Title
Living with a Comet: Highlights from the European Rosetta Mission
Abstract
Rosetta has been at comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko almost 1.5 years by now and the ten instruments on board the European Space mission Rosetta are very busy studying the comet nucleus and its coma. The two Swiss ROSINA mass spectrometers and the pressure sensors are exploring the volatile material in the coma over a wide range of heliocentric distances. In the talk I will present some of the highlights from ROSINA and other instruments on board and discuss their first implications and conclusions on the origin of our solar system material.