The Rosetta Orbiter radio science investigations will use the existing radio transmitters and receivers on the orbiter. There are three primary investigations in addition to the routine tracking which takes place for navigation and data return and will be used in conjunction with other experiments. The gravity mapping campaign will use Doppler and range tracking to estimate the mass and gravity field of the comet nucleus. The occultation experiments will study the effects of the innermost coma on radio signals which pass through the coma to Earth before and after occultations of the comet nucleus and will also help determine the morphology of the nucleus. Finally, bistatic radar observations will be used to study the surface of the comet by... ...Show More
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:rsi.ro
1.0