Surface environment of Phobos and Phobos simulant UTPS

Hideaki Miyamoto; Takafumi Niihara; K Wada; K Ogawa; Hiroki Senshu; P Michel; Hiroshi Kikuchi; Ryodo Hemmi; T Nakamura; Akiko M Nakamura; Naoyuki Hirata; Sho Sasaki; Erik Asphaug; D Britt; P Abell; R.-L Ballouz; Olivier S Banouin; Nicola Baresi; MA Barucci; M Grott; J Biele; Hideitsu Hino; Peng K Hong; Takane Imada; Shingo Kameda; M Kobayashi; Guy Libourel; K Mogi; Naomi Murdoch; Yuki Nishio; Shogo Okamoto; Yuichiro Ota; Masatsugu Otsuki; Katharina A Otto; Naoya Sakatani; Y. Shimizu; Tomohiro Takemura; Naoki Terada; Masafumi Tsukamoto; Tomohiro Usui; Konrad Willner

doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01406-3

Back

Surface environment of Phobos and Phobos simulant UTPS

Journal article

Open access

Peer reviewed

Surface environment of Phobos and Phobos simulant UTPS

Hideaki Miyamoto, Takafumi Niihara, K Wada, K Ogawa, Hiroki Senshu, P Michel, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Ryodo Hemmi, T Nakamura, Akiko M Nakamura, …

Earth, Planets and Space, Vol.73, 214

10/12/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01406-3

Abstract

MMX

Phobos

Deimos

Surface environment

Simulant

The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, Mars, and their environments. The mission scenario includes both landing on the surface of Phobos to collect samples and deploying a small rover for in situ observations. Engineering safeties and scientific planning for these operations require appropriate evaluations of the surface environment of Phobos. Thus, the mission team organized the Landing Operation Working Team (LOWT) and Surface Science and Geology Sub-Science Team (SSG-SST), whose view of the Phobos environment is summarized in this paper. While orbital and large-scale characteristics of Phobos are relatively well known, characteristics of the surface regolith, including the particle size-distributions, the packing density, and the mechanical properties, are difficult to constrain. Therefore, we developed several types of simulated soil materials (simulant), such as UTPS-TB (University of Tokyo Phobos Simulant, Tagish Lake based), UTPS-IB (Impact-hypothesis based), and UTPS-S (Simpler version) for engineering and scientific evaluation experiments.

Files and links (1)

url

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01406-3View

Published (Version of record)CC BY V4.0, Open

Metrics

20 Record Views

16 Times Cited - Web of Science

See more details

Details

Title: Surface environment of Phobos and Phobos simulant UTPS
Creators: Hideaki Miyamoto (Corresponding Author) - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Takafumi Niihara - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
K Wada - Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology
K Ogawa - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Hiroki Senshu - Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology
P Michel - Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange
Hiroshi Kikuchi - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Ryodo Hemmi - University Museum, University of Tokyo
T Nakamura - Department of Earth Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Akiko M Nakamura - Department of Planetology, Kobe University
Naoyuki Hirata - Department of Planetology, Kobe University
Sho Sasaki - Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University
Erik Asphaug - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
D Britt - Department of Physics, University of Central Florida
P Abell - Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, NASA Johnson Space Center
R.-L Ballouz - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Olivier S Banouin - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Nicola Baresi
MA Barucci - LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Université de Paris
M Grott - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research
J Biele - German Aerospace Center
Hideitsu Hino - The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Peng K Hong - Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology
Takane Imada - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Shingo Kameda - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, College of Science, Rikkyo University
M Kobayashi - Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo
Guy Libourel - Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange
K Mogi - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Naomi Murdoch - Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Université de Toulouse
Yuki Nishio - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Shogo Okamoto - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Yuichiro Ota - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Masatsugu Otsuki - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Katharina A Otto - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research
Naoya Sakatani - College of Science, Rikkyo University
Y. Shimizu - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Tomohiro Takemura - Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo
Naoki Terada - Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Masafumi Tsukamoto - Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo
Tomohiro Usui - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Konrad Willner - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research
Publication Details: Earth, Planets and Space, Vol.73, 214
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Date published: 10/12/2021
Date accepted: 24/03/2021
Grants: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan, Tokyo) - JAXA
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan, Tokyo) - ISAS
University of Arizona (United States, Tucson) - UA
Grant note: This work is fnancially supported by JAXA/ISAS. P.M. and M.A.B acknowledge CNES for funding support. E.A. acknowledges support from University of Arizona.
Identifiers: 99620666102346
Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Academic Unit: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Surface environment of Phobos and Phobos simulant UTPS

Abstract

Files and links (1)

Metrics

Details

Usage Policy