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R.-L. Ballouz
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The many small-body exploration missions that have occurred over the last few decades have shown that small solar system objects are covered with granular material of varying depth. These missions have also observed that granular materials are mobilized from the surfaces at speed
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The OSIRIS-REx mission collected a sample from the surface of the asteroid (101955) Bennu in 2020 October. Here, we study the impact of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go Sampling Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) interacting with the surface of an asteroid in the framework of granular phy
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MARAUDERS
A mission concept to probe volatile distribution and properties at the lunar poles with miniature impactors
We present a small-scale mission concept to characterize the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole. MARAUDERS aims to measure in situ for the first time the presence, distribution, and state of volatiles in one permanently shaded crater at a greater resolution than
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