LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Highlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 First in situ NIR hyperspectral microscope embarked on a space mission.
\u2022 First landing on a C-type asteroid.
\u2022 Ryugu boulder-rich regolith-free surface revealed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“MASCOT has been selected to be integrated on board the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission, with a suite of 4 instruments: a camera MASCam, a radiometer MARA, a magnetometer MASMag and MicrOmega, a hyperspectral near infrared microscope, designed to characterize the composition of Ryugu surface materials down their grain scale (25\u202f\u03bcm large). A joined article (Ho et al., this issue) describes and gives references to MASCOT design, goals, development and operation, along its cruise, landing and on asteroid phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MicrOmega has been activated and operated as planned, while demonstrating high instrumental performances. However, its configuration when MASCOT went at rest on Ruygu located MicrOmega line of sight over a deep depression, with Ryugu surface much too far to be illuminated and imaged, precluding a direct characterization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this paper, we present and discuss MicrOmega operations and outcomes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jean-Pierre Bibring, C\u00e9dric Pilorget, Lucie Riu, Vincent Hamm, Rosario Brunetto, Tra-Mi Ho, Ralph Jaumann, Yves Langevin, Aur\u00e9lie Moussi, Fran\u00e7ois Poulet, Mathieu Vincendon, the MicrOmega\/Mascot team Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 4 December 2021 LINK “Highlights…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,2350,2243,181],"tags":[3872,2244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29703,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions\/29703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}