{"id":218751,"date":"2013-12-20T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"0195e5b985a5b8357b2695a8264f545e"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:45:00","slug":"rosettas-instruments-white-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218751","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta\u2019s instruments (white background)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/12\/rosetta_s_instruments_white_background\/13467215-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_instruments_white_background_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Rosetta orbiter will analyse comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its environment using a suite of 11 instruments:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALICE: Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer \u2013 (characterising the composition of the comet nucleus and coma)<\/li>\n<li>CONSERT: Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio wave Transmission (studying the internal structure of the comet with lander Philae)<\/li>\n<li>COSIMA: Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (studying the composition of the dust in the comet\u2019s coma)<\/li>\n<li>GIADA: Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (measuring the number, mass, momentum and velocity distribution of dust grains in the near-comet environment)<\/li>\n<li>MIDAS: Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (studying the dust environment of the comet)<\/li>\n<li>MIRO: Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (investigating the nature of the cometary nucleus, outgassing from the nucleus and development of the coma)<\/li>\n<li>OSIRIS: Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System Camera (a dual camera imaging system consisting of a narrow angle (NAC) and wide angle camera (WAC) and operating in the visible, near infrared and near ultraviolet wavelength range)<\/li>\n<li>ROSINA: Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (determining the composition of the comet&#8217;s atmosphere and ionosphere, and measuring the temperature, velocity and density of the gas flow, comprising: DFMS (Double-focusing mass spectrometer), RTOF (Reflectron Time-Of-Flight mass spectrometer) and COPS (Comet Pressure Sensor))<\/li>\n<li>RPC: Rosetta Plasma Consortium (studying the plasma environment of the comet, comprising: ICA (Ion Composition Analyser), IES (Ion and Electron Sensor), LAP (Langmuir Probe), MAG (Fluxgate Magnetometer), MIP (Mutual Impedance Probe), PIU (Plasma Interface Unit))<\/li>\n<li>RSI: Radio Science Investigation (tracking the motion of the spacecraft to infer details of the comet environment and nucleus)<\/li>\n<li>VIRTIS: Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (studying the nature of the comet nucleus and the gases in the coma)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/12\/rosetta_s_instruments_white_background\/13467215-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_instruments_white_background_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Rosetta orbiter will analyse comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its environment using a suite of 11 instruments:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALICE: Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer \u2013 (characterising the composition of the comet nucleus and coma)<\/li>\n<li>CONSERT: Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio wave Transmission (studying the internal structure of the comet with lander Philae)<\/li>\n<li>COSIMA: Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (studying the composition of the dust in the comet\u2019s coma)<\/li>\n<li>GIADA: Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (measuring the number, mass, momentum and velocity distribution of dust grains in the near-comet environment)<\/li>\n<li>MIDAS: Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (studying the dust environment of the comet)<\/li>\n<li>MIRO: Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (investigating the nature of the cometary nucleus, outgassing from the nucleus and development of the coma)<\/li>\n<li>OSIRIS: Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System Camera (a dual camera imaging system consisting of a narrow angle (NAC) and wide angle camera (WAC) and operating in the visible, near infrared and near ultraviolet wavelength range)<\/li>\n<li>ROSINA: Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (determining the composition of the comet&#8217;s atmosphere and ionosphere, and measuring the temperature, velocity and density of the gas flow, comprising: DFMS (Double-focusing mass spectrometer), RTOF (Reflectron Time-Of-Flight mass spectrometer) and COPS (Comet Pressure Sensor))<\/li>\n<li>RPC: Rosetta Plasma Consortium (studying the plasma environment of the comet, comprising: ICA (Ion Composition Analyser), IES (Ion and Electron Sensor), LAP (Langmuir Probe), MAG (Fluxgate Magnetometer), MIP (Mutual Impedance Probe), PIU (Plasma Interface Unit))<\/li>\n<li>RSI: Radio Science Investigation (tracking the motion of the spacecraft to infer details of the comet environment and nucleus)<\/li>\n<li>VIRTIS: Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (studying the nature of the comet nucleus and the gases in the coma)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}