Bibcode
Preusker, F.; Scholten, F.; Elgner, S.; Matz, K. -D.; Kameda, S.; Roatsch, T.; Jaumann, R.; Sugita, S.; Honda, R.; Morota, T.; Tatsumi, E.; Cho, Y.; Yoshioka, K.; Sawada, H.; Yokota, Y.; Sakatani, N.; Hayakawa, M.; Matsuoka, M.; Yamada, M.; Kouyama, T.; Suzuki, H.; Honda, C.; Ogawa, K.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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2019
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Description
A high-resolution 3D surface model, map-projected to a digital terrain model (DTM), and precisely ortho-rectified context images (orthoimages) of MASCOT landing site area are important data sets for the scientific analysis of relevant data that have been acquired with MASCOT's image camera system MASCam and other instruments (e.g., the radiometer MARA and the magnetometer MASMag). We performed a stereo-photogrammetric (SPG) analysis of 1050 images acquired from the Hayabusa2 Optical Navigation Camera system (ONC) during the asteroid characterization phase and the MASCOT release phase in early October 2018 to construct a photogrammetric control point network of asteroid (162173) Ryugu. We validated existing rotational parameters for Ryugu and improved the camera orientation (position and pointing) of the ONC images to decimeter accuracy using SPG bundle block adjustment. We produced a high-resolution DTM of the entire MASCOT landing site area. Finally, based on this DTM, a set of orthoimages from the highest-resolution ONC images around MASCOT's final rest position complements the results of this analysis.
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