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We conducted ground-based performance evaluation tests of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS3) onboard Hayabusa2 spacecraft in November 2013 and from April to May 2014 and established a method for evaluating...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:120
Published on: 4 September 2017
Frontier Letter
Jupiter’s moon Io, which orbits deep inside the magnetosphere, is the most geologically active object in the solar system. Kurdalagon Patera, a volcano on Io, erupted in 2015 and became a substantial source of...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:110
Published on: 15 August 2017
Express Letter
We investigate the effect of a radial pressure bump in a protoplanetary disk on planetesimal formation. We performed the two-dimensional numerical simulation of the dynamical interaction of solid particles and...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:50
Published on: 18 April 2017
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Adiabatic compression is a key factor that exerts control over thermal convection in the compressible solid mantle of super-Earths. To discuss the effects of adiabatic compression, we present a numerical model...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:46
Published on: 24 March 2017
Letter
Optical and infrared remote sensing may provide first-order clues for the identification of potential impact structures on the Earth. Despite the free availability of at least optical image data at highest res...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:35
Published on: 27 February 2017
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Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:31
Published on: 13 February 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:40
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The evolution of Mars has been greatly influenced by temporal changes in its rheological structure, which may explain the difference in tectonics between Mars and Earth. Some previous studies have shown the rh...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:8
Published on: 3 January 2017
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We report results of a laser link experiment between a laser altimeter called light detection and ranging (LIDAR) aboard Hayabusa2 and ground-based satellite laser ranging stations conducted when the spacecraf...
Earth, Planets and Space 2017 69:2
Published on: 3 January 2017
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The formation ages of tectonic structures and their spatial distributions were studied in the northwestern Imbrium and Sinus Iridum regions using images obtained by Terrain Camera and Multiband Imager on board...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:157
Published on: 20 September 2016
Letter
The last decades have seen a large number of missions targeting small bodies in the solar system. NASA, ESA and JAXA sent missions to different solar system small bodies (SSSB), and the Japan mission Hayabusa ...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:113
Published on: 11 July 2016
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A single aperture and hollow retroreflector [corner-cube mirror (CCM)] that in principle has no internal optical path difference is a key instrument for achieving lunar laser ranging one order or more accurate...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:101
Published on: 7 June 2016
Letter
Dependence of laboratory-measured emissivity spectra from the emergence angle is a subject that still needs a lot of investigations to be fully understood. Most of the previous work is based on reflectance mea...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:84
Published on: 23 May 2016
Frontier letter
AKATSUKI is the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter that was designed to investigate the climate system of Venus. The orbiter was launched on May 21, 2010, and it reached Venus on December 7, 2010. Thrust was appl...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:75
Published on: 6 May 2016
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IR2, a near-infrared camera in the 2-μm region onboard Akatsuki has been developed to primarily study the middle-to-lower atmospheric dynamics of Venus as probed in the 1.74- and 2.3-μm “windows” of the
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:74
Published on: 4 May 2016
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The compositions of diverse planetary bodies are of fundamental interest to planetary science, providing clues to the formation and evolutionary history of the target bodies and the solar system as a whole. Ut...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:35
Published on: 29 February 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:122
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This special issue gathered papers from the International CAWSES-II Symposium (November 18–22, 2013 at Nagoya University, Japan). Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System II (CAWSES-II) is an international ...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:26
Published on: 19 February 2016
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Argon isotopic data is used to assess the potential of low-mass samples collected by sample return missions on planetary objects (e.g., Moon, Mars, asteroids), to reveal planetary surface processes. We report ...
Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:11
Published on: 26 January 2016
Letter
Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2977 is identified as an olivine cumulate gabbro (OC), consisting of coarse cumulate olivine crystals up to 1 mm with low-Ca and high-Ca pyroxenes, plagioclase, and inter...
Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:200
Published on: 12 December 2015
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Electron density profiles from the ionosphere of Mars that were obtained by the Mariner 9 radio occultation experiment in 1971–1972 have unique scientific value because they extend to higher altitudes than com...
Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:194
Published on: 3 December 2015
Letter
We report the results of detailed mineralogical investigations by analytical scanning and transmission electron microscopy of particle RA-QD02-0115 recovered from the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa. We divi...
Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:163
Published on: 16 December 2014
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