The MIDAS experiment for the Rosetta mission

Details The MIDAS experiment for the Rosetta mission The MIDAS experiment for the Rosetta mission

Sep 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.480...67a&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the 9th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium, 19-21 September 2001, Liège, Belgium. Compiled by

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Rosetta Mission, Atomic Force Microscope

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The international Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen will be launched by the European Space Agency in January 2003. The Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (MIDAS) is one of the key elements of Rosetta's scientific payload designed to collect dust particles drifting outwards from the cometary surface. MIDAS is based on an atomic force microscope (AFM), a type of scanning probe microscope able to image small structures in 3D at nanometer scale resolution. This instrument is a completely new development and will be the first application of atomic force microscopy in space science.

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