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A Review of General Physical and Chemical Processes Related to Plasma Sources and Losses for Solar System Magnetospheres

A comparison between the two lobes of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko based on D/H ratios in H2O measured with the Rosetta/ROSINA DFMS

scientific article published on 5 September 2019

A low energy ion beam facility for mass spectrometer calibration: First results.

scientific article published in January 2018

A miniature mass analyser for in-situ elemental analysis of planetary material–performance studies

scientific article published on November 25, 2010

A neutral gas mass spectrometer to measure the chemical composition of the stratosphere

scientific article published in October 2009

A new view on the solar wind interaction with the Moon

Abundant molecular oxygen in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

scientific article

An Impacting Descent Probe for Europa and the Other Galilean Moons of Jupiter

article published in 2017

An optimised compact electron impact ion storage source for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer

scientific article published in June 2010

Backscattered energetic neutral atoms from the Moon in the Earth's plasma sheet observed by Chandarayaan-1/Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer instrument

Callisto's Atmosphere and Its Space Environment: Prospects for the Particle Environment Package on Board JUICE

scientific article published in 2022

Callisto's atmosphere and its space environment: prospects for the Particle Environment Package on board JUICE

Chandrayaan-1 observations of backscattered solar wind protons from the lunar regolith: Dependence on the solar wind speed

article by Charles Lue et al published May 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

Change of outgassing pattern of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during the March 2016 equinox as seen by ROSINA

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Characteristics of proton velocity distribution functions in the near-lunar wake from Chandrayaan-1/SWIM observations

scholarly article

Chemical Composition of Micrometer-Sized Filaments in an Aragonite Host by a Miniature Laser Ablation/Ionization Mass Spectrometer

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Chlorine-bearing species and the 37Cl/35Cl isotope ratio in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Cometary science. 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a Jupiter family comet with a high D/H ratio

scientific article

Cometary science. Time variability and heterogeneity in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Composition Measurements of Uranus’ Atmosphere

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Composition-dependent outgassing of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from ROSINA/DFMS

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Coupling of LMS with a fs-laser ablation ion source: elemental and isotope composition measurements

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Depth Profiling and Cross-Sectional Laser Ablation Ionization Mass Spectrometry Studies of Through-Silicon-Vias

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Detectability of biosignatures in a low-biomass simulation of martian sediments

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Detection of argon in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article

Dust environment of an airless object: A phase space study with kinetic models

EGT-A sensitive time-of-flight mass spectrometer for multielement isotope gas analysis

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

ELENA MCP detector: absolute detection efficiency for low-energy neutral atoms

Electron-induced radiolysis and sputtering on the surface of icy moons: insights from laboratory experiments

Elemental and molecular abundances in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Emission of energetic neutral atoms from water ice under Ganymede surface-like conditions

Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imaging and In-Situ Energetic Particle Exploration of the Jovian Magnetosphere and Moon Environment from JUICE/PEP

Energetic neutral atom imaging mass spectroscopy of the Moon and Mercury environments

Energy Spectral Properties of Hydrogen Energetic Neutral Atoms Emitted From the Dayside Atmosphere of Mars

scientific article

Erratum to “Extremely high reflection of solar wind protons as neutral hydrogen atoms from regolith in space” [Planet. Space Sci. 57 (2009) 2132–2134]

article

Evidence for distributed gas sources of hydrogen halides in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

scientific article published in July 2017

Evolution of Mercury’s Earliest Atmosphere

scholarly article

Experimenting with Mixtures of Water Ice and Dust as Analogues for Icy Planetary Material

Explorer of Enceladus and Titan (E 2 T): Investigating ocean worlds' evolution and habitability in the solar system

Extremely high reflection of solar wind protons as neutral hydrogen atoms from regolith in space

article

First observation of a mini-magnetosphere above a lunar magnetic anomaly using energetic neutral atoms

scientific article (publication date: March 2010)

Fully automatic and precise data analysis developed for time-of-flight mass spectrometry

scientific article

Future Missions Related to the Determination of the Elemental and Isotopic Composition of Earth, Moon and the Terrestrial Planets

scientific article

Global observations of the interstellar interaction from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)

scientific article published on 15 October 2009

High-latitude ion transport and energetic explorer (HI-LITE): a mission to investigate ion outflow from the high-latitude ionosphere

High-resolution chemical depth profiling of solid material using a miniature laser ablation/ionization mass spectrometer

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

High-speed microstrip multi-anode multichannel plate detector system

scientific article

Highly accurate isotope composition measurements by a miniature laser ablation mass spectrometer designed for in situ investigations on planetary surfaces

article

Improved detection sensitivity for heavy trace elements using a miniature laser ablation ionisation mass spectrometer

In Situ exploration of the giant planets

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission

scientific article published on 30 November 2022

Insights into Laser Ablation Processes of Heterogeneous Samples: Toward Analysis of Through-Silicon-Vias

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Interstellar Neutral Helium in the Heliosphere from IBEX Observations. VI. The He + Density and the Ionization State in the Very Local Interstellar Matter

Io Volcano Observer's (IVO) integrated approach to optimizing system design for radiation challenges

scientific article published in March 2012

Ion chemistry in the coma of comet 67P near perihelion

scholarly article

Isotope abundance ratio measurements using femtosecond laser ablation ionization mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Joint Europa Mission (JEM): a multi-scale study of Europa to characterize its habitability and search for extant life

Kinetic simulations of finite gyroradius effects in the lunar plasma environment on global, meso, and microscales

article by Esa Kallio et al published December 2012 in Planetary and Space Science

Krypton isotopes and noble gas abundances in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

scientific article published on 4 July 2018

Laser Ablation/Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: Sensitive and Quantitative Chemical Depth Profiling of Solid Materials

scientific article

Low energy neutral atom imaging on the Moon with the SARA instrument aboard Chandrayaan-1 mission

Low-energy energetic neutral atom imaging of Io plasma and neutral tori

article published in 2015

Mass spectrometric analysis in planetary science: Investigation of the surface and the atmosphere

scientific article published in November 2012

Mass spectrometric characterization of the Rosetta Spacecraft contamination

scientific article

Mass spectrometry of planetary exospheres at high relative velocity: direct comparison of open- and closed-source measurements

scholarly article by Stefan Meyer published in January 2017

Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo

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Mineralogical determination in situ of a highly heterogeneous material using a miniaturized laser ablation mass spectrometer with high spatial resolution

Modelling of Io’s Atmosphere for the IVO Mission

scientific article

Molecular analysis by ionization of laser-desorbed neutral species

scientific article published on February 20, 1993

Molecular nitrogen in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko indicates a low formation temperature.

scientific article

Noble Gas Abundance Ratios Indicate the Agglomeration of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from Warmed-up Ice

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ORIGIN: a novel and compact Laser Desorption - Mass Spectrometry system for sensitive in situ detection of amino acids on extraterrestrial surfaces

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

On Applicability of a Miniaturised Laser Ablation Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer for Trace Elements Measurements

On the in-situ detectability of Europa's water vapour plumes from a flyby mission

scientific article

Origin of molecular oxygen in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article

Performance evaluation of a miniature laser ablation time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer designed for in situ investigations in planetary space research

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Plasma-neutral gas interactions in various space environments: Assessment beyond simplified approximations as a Voyage 2050 theme

Pre-flight Calibration and Near-Earth Commissioning Results of the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) Onboard MMO (Mio)

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Prebiotic chemicals-amino acid and phosphorus-in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article

Processes that Promote and Deplete the Exosphere of Mercury

scientific article (publication date: October 2007)

Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surface and Composition

scientific article published in June 2020

Residual Gas Adsorption and Desorption in the Field Emission of Titanium-Coated Carbon Nanotubes

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Rosina – Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis

scientific article published on 3 January 2007

SELMA mission: How do airless bodies interact with space environment? The Moon as an accessible laboratory

scholarly article

SERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo

scholarly article

Sample return of primitive matter from the outer Solar System

Scattering characteristics and imaging of energetic neutral atoms from the Moon in the terrestrial magnetosheath

scholarly article

Scientific rationale for Saturn׳s in situ exploration

Scientific rationale for Uranus and Neptune in situ explorations

scholarly article by O. Mousis et al published June 2018 in Planetary and Space Science

Space weathering on the Moon: Farside-nearside solar wind precipitation asymmetry

scholarly article

Strong influence of lunar crustal fields on the solar wind flow

article by Charles Lue et al published February 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters

Studying the Lunar—Solar Wind Interaction with the SARA Experiment aboard the Indian Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1

scholarly article published 2010

Synthesis of Molecular Oxygen via Irradiation of Ice Grains in the Protosolar Nebula

scientific article

The Case for a New Frontiers–Class Uranus Orbiter: System Science at an Underexplored and Unique World with a Mid-scale Mission

scientific article published in 2022

The Hera Saturn entry probe mission

The Particle Environment Package on board JUICE: What Can We Learn about Callisto's Atmosphere and Space Environment?

The Science Case for a Return to Enceladus

scholarly article

The Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) suite

scientific article published in 2020

The middle atmospheric circulation of a tidally locked Earth-like planet and the role of the sea surface temperature

The presence of clathrates in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

The sodium exosphere of Mercury: Comparison between observations during Mercury's transit and model results

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Three-Dimensional Composition Analysis of SnAg Solder Bumps Using Ultraviolet Femtosecond Laser Ablation Ionization Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Toward Three-Dimensional Chemical Imaging of Ternary Cu-Sn-Pb Alloys Using Femtosecond Laser Ablation/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

scientific article

Towards In-Situ Geochemical Analysis of Planetary Rocks and Soils by Laser Ablation/Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published in 2022

Towards a Global Unified Model of Europa’s Tenuous Atmosphere

Towards matrix-free femtosecond-laser desorption mass spectrometry for in situ space research

scientific article

Triple F—a comet nucleus sample return mission

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Unique Heliospheric Measurement Opportunities with the ESA JUICE mission: Science Case for Particle Environment Package (PEP)

VIS spectroscopy of NaCl – water ice mixtures irradiated with 1 and 5 keV electrons under Europa's conditions: Formation of colour centres and Na colloids

scholarly article

Xenon isotopes in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show that comets contributed to Earth's atmosphere.

scientific article published in June 2017