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Description
The Triple F ( Fresh From the Fridge) mission, a Comet Nucleus Sample
Return, has been proposed to ESA’s Cosmic Vision program. A sample
return from a comet enables us to reach the ultimate goal of cometary
research. Since comets are the least processed bodies in the solar
system, the proposal goes far beyond cometary science topics (like the
explanation of cometary activity) and delivers invaluable information
about the formation of the solar system and the interstellar molecular
cloud from which it formed. The proposed mission would extract three
sample cores of the upper 50 cm from three locations on a cometary
nucleus and return them cooled to Earth for analysis in the laboratory.
The simple mission concept with a touch-and-go sampling by a single
spacecraft was proposed as an M-class mission in collaboration with the
Russian space agency ROSCOSMOS.
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Small Bodies of the Solar System
This project studies the physical and compositional properties of the so-called minor bodies of the Solar System, that includes asteroids, icy objects, and comets. Of special interest are the trans-neptunian objects (TNOs), including those considered the most distant objects detected so far (Extreme-TNOs or ETNOs); the comets and the comet-asteroid
Julia de
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