Search Results - "De Sanctis, C."
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Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-02-2017)“…Organic compounds occur in some chondritic meteorites, and their signatures on solar system bodies have been sought for decades. Spectral signatures of…”
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The geomorphology of Ceres
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-09-2016)“…Analysis of Dawn spacecraft Framing Camera image data allows evaluation of the topography and geomorphology of features on the surface of Ceres. The dwarf…”
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The Violent Collisional History of Asteroid 4 Vesta
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (11-05-2012)“…Vesta is a large differentiated rocky body in the main asteroid belt that accreted within the first few million years after the formation of the earliest solar…”
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Mineralogy and Its Diversity Across Vesta
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (11-05-2012)“…The mineralogy of Vesta, based on data obtained by the Dawn spacecraft's visible and infrared spectrometer, is consistent with howardite-eucrite-diogenite…”
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Spectral analysis of Ahuna Mons from Dawn mission's visible‐infrared spectrometer
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-01-2017)“…Ahuna Mons is the highest mountain on Ceres. A unique complex in terms of size, shape, and morphology, Ahuna is bordered by flanks of the talus around its…”
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Distinctive space weathering on Vesta from regolith mixing processes
Published in Nature (London) (01-11-2012)“…Whereas space weathering of some airless bodies, such as the Moon, occurs through the accumulation on regolith of nanophase metallic particles, spectroscopic…”
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High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites
Published in Nature geoscience (01-04-2013)“…The Moon experienced an intense period of impacts about 4 Gyr ago. This cataclysm is thought to have affected the entire inner Solar System and has been…”
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An investigation of the bluish material on Ceres
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-02-2017)“…The dwarf planet Ceres shows spatially well‐defined regions, which exhibit a negative (blue) spectral slope between 0.5 and 2.5 µm. Comparisons with planetary…”
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Vesta surface thermal properties map
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-03-2014)“…The first ever regional thermal properties map of Vesta has been derived from the temperatures retrieved by infrared data by the mission Dawn. The low average…”
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Thermal Modeling of Oxia Planum: Thermophysical Characterization of the Dark Resistant Unit (DRU) in the Germania Lacus
Published in Advances in astronomy (09-06-2023)“…The aim of this work is to characterize, from a thermophysical perspective, the dark resistant unit (DRU) characterizing Germania Lacus in the Oxia Planum…”
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Characterization of V-type asteroids orbiting in the middle and outer main belt
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2021)“…ABSTRACT We present new spectral observations using ground-based telescopes of 23 putative V-type asteroids, selected according to colour surveys in the…”
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The missing large impact craters on Ceres
Published in Nature communications (26-07-2016)“…Asteroids provide fundamental clues to the formation and evolution of planetesimals. Collisional models based on the depletion of the primordial main belt of…”
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Characteristics of organic matter on Ceres from VIR/Dawn high spatial resolution spectra
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SIMBIO-SYS: Scientific Cameras and Spectrometer for the BepiColombo Mission
Published in Space science reviews (01-08-2020)“…The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometer and Imaging for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem) is a complex instrument suite part of the scientific payload of the…”
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Subsurface Thermal Modeling of Oxia Planum, Landing Site of ExoMars 2022
Published in Advances in astronomy (2021)“…Numerical simulations are required to thermophysically characterize Oxia Planum, the landing site of the mission ExoMars 2022. A drilling system is installed…”
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Thermal convection in the crust of the dwarf planet – I. Ceres
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2020)“…ABSTRACT Ceres is the largest body in the Main Belt, and it is characterized by a large abundance of water ice in its interior. This feature is suggested by…”
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The organic-rich surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by VIRTIS/Rosetta
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-01-2015)“…The VIRTIS (Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence of carbon-bearing compounds on…”
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Pitted terrains on (1) Ceres and implications for shallow subsurface volatile distribution
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-07-2017)“…Prior to the arrival of the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres, the dwarf planet was anticipated to be ice‐rich. Searches for morphological features related to ice have…”
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Comparison of a pebbles-based model with the observed evolution of the water and carbon dioxide outgassing of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (22-06-2023)“…ABSTRACT The Rosetta mission escorted comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for approximately two years including the perihelion passage (1.24 au, 2015 August),…”
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The diurnal cycle of water ice on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Published in Nature (London) (24-09-2015)“…Observations of water ice on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko show the ice appearing and disappearing in a cyclic pattern that follows local…”
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