AGU Advances VOL.6 ISSUE 1 | 27 January 2025
Ceres: Organic‐Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?
R Sarkar + A Nathues + M Hoffmann ...
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. Previous studies identified deposits of aliphatic organics in...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets VOL.130 ISSUE 2 | 12 February 2025
Inefficient Loss of Moderately Volatile Elements From Exposed Planetesimal Magma Oceans
Zhongtian Zhang + Peter E Driscoll
Some melted and differentiated planetesimals, such as the parent bodies of angrites and howardite‐eucrite‐diogenite meteorites, are severely depleted in moderately...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics VOL.130 ISSUE 2 | 19 February 2025
Size‐Dependent Surface Charging of Lunar Cavities Exposed to the Solar Wind
Jin Nakazono + Yohei Miyake
Surface charging phenomena on the lunar surface are significantly influenced by topographical features such as craters, boulders, and cavities. This study employs Particle‐in‐Cell...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets VOL.129 ISSUE 9 | 6 September 2024
Deterministic Model for Asteroid Thermal Evolution With Fragmentation and Reassembly Into a Gravitational Aggregate
Jialong Ren + Marc A Hesse + Michael P Lucas ...
We present a model for the thermal evolution of asteroids that experience catastrophic fragmentation and reassembly into a gravitational aggregate. The three stage model comprises...
Earth and Space Science VOL.11 ISSUE 8 | 16 August 2024
Pre‐Flight and In‐Flight Calibration and Performance of the Terminal Tracking Cameras (TTCams) on the NASA Lucy Mission
Y Zhao + J F Bell + E Sahr ...
The Terminal Tracking Camera (TTCam) imaging system on the NASA Lucy Discovery mission consists of a pair of cameras that are being used mainly as a navigation and target...