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Mars Dust Counter on Board ISAS PLANET-B

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

Eduard Igenbergs ,
Sho Sasaki ,
Georg Färber ,
Franz Fischer ,
Ralf Münzenmayer ,
Akira Fujiwara ,
Heinrich Iglseder ,
Albrecht Glasmachers ,
Eberhard Grün  and
Tadashi Mukai
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Eduard Igenbergs
Affiliation:
LRT, TU-München, 80333 München, Germany
Sho Sasaki
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan
Georg Färber
Affiliation:
LPR and LRT, TU-München, 80333 München, Germany
Franz Fischer
Affiliation:
LPR and LRT, TU-München, 80333 München, Germany
Ralf Münzenmayer
Affiliation:
LPR and LRT, TU-München, 80333 München, Germany
Akira Fujiwara
Affiliation:
ISAS, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara 229, Japan
Heinrich Iglseder
Affiliation:
ISAS, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara 229, Japan
Albrecht Glasmachers
Affiliation:
Ruhr Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
Eberhard Grün
Affiliation:
MPI Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Tadashi Mukai
Affiliation:
Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkoudai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657, Japan
Ken-ichi Nogami
Affiliation:
Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Tochigi 312-02, Japan
Hideo Ohashi
Affiliation:
Tokyo University of Fishery, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
Gerhard Schwehm
Affiliation:
ESA-ESTEC, PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Håkan Svedhem
Affiliation:
ESA-ESTEC, PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Kazuo Yamakoshi
Affiliation:
ICRR, University of Tokyo, Midori-cho, Tanashi 188, Japan

Abstract

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PLANET-B is an ISAS spacecraft which will investigate the upper atmosphere and the surroundings of Mars between 1999 and 2001 To clarify the presence and characteristics of the Martian dust ring/torus, an impact ionization dust detector will be on board PLANET-B The detector (PLANET B Mars Dust Counter), which is an improved version of the Munich Dust Counters of HITEN and BREMSAT, will weigh only 630g with an aperture area 140cm2. The detectable mass range will be between 10-16g and more than 10-6g and the velocity range will be from 1km/s to more than 70km/s. Since PLANET-B executes retrograde elliptic orbits close to the zodiacal plane, our detector can investigate the spatial distribution of prograde dust particles from Phobos and Deimos with relative encounter velocity as large as or higher than 1km/s. PLANET-B MDC shall also measure the dust environment around the Earth and interplanetary and possibly interstellar dust particles.

Type
VII. Instrumentation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 233 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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