MOSIR Project

Development of Mercury Dust Monitor Onboard MMO in BeiColombo Mercury Exploring Mission

Speaker	Hiromi Shibata (Kyoto University)
Date	2012/11/28 - 2012/11/30
Seminar	30th Grain Formation Workshop

Place	CPS Conference Room
Documents	Presentation (14.47MB)

Abstract	Mercury Dust Monitor (MDM) onboard Japanese made Mercury Magnetospheric Orbitor has been developing in Euro-Japan cooparative mission 'BepiCOlombo'. MDM consists of 4 pieces of PZT piezo-electric sensors (40mmx40mmx2mm). As voltage signal waves genarate on the sensors, when dusts hit these sensors, hit numbers and momenta of dusts will be obtained by the wave analysis. The impact number on detector is estimated to be 0.5/day.
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