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A long voyageback to our origin
Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Prof. Kathrin AltweggUniversity of Bern, Switzerland
Krebs Nebula
From the elementsto molecules and
dust
From dust andmolecules to the presolar nebula
From the presolarnebula to the soalr
system of today
From hydrogen to the heavy elements
Big Bang, 13 Billion years, Hydrogen and Helium
History of the material in the solar system
Comets
Entstehung Kometen
Snow line
Comets, Witnesses of our past
The Earth 4-4.5 billion yearsago
4.6 billion years ago: T > 200 C
Mass Earth: 1024 kg
water thereof: 1%o
Mass comet: 1014 kg
107 Comet impacts
Did comets bring terrestrial water?
Did comets bring thebuilding blocks of life, the
organic material?
� In space, there exists organic chemistry
�Molecules up to amino-acids exist outside of our Earth and of the solar system
�Comets preserve organic material
�Comets can serve as carrier for waterand organic material
DPUDigital data processing unit, fully redundant2.2 kg, 5 W
DFMSDoubled focussing
mass spectrometerfor the volatile materialVery high mass resolution (e. g. resolves 13C and CH)16 kg, 22W
RTOFReflectron Type time-of-flight-mass spectrometer; Very high mass range and sensitivity in order to identify organic material (e.g. polyaromatic hydrocarbons) 15 kg, 30W
COPSPressure sensor to measure the total and the ram pressure in order to derive the gas dynamics, safety instrument for Rosetta. 1.7 kg, 7 W
COPS-FS (NG, left filament)
0.1
1
10
100
1000
1.E-10 1.E-09 1.E-08 1.E-07 1.E-06 1.E-05
Pressure (mbar)
Ion
curr
ent (
pA)
103 uA Emission, Ionlow
15uA Emission, Ion low
15uA Emission, Ionmedium
5uA Emission, Ion low
5uA Emission, Ionmedium
DetailsContext and heavy species
Dann kommt die Physik
GVE EMPA
APCOHauptverantwortung
Contraves Space
Max Planck, Lindau, D
CNES Toulouse, F
Sigmund Scientific, USA
Montena EMC
Meier Laser-schweisstechnik
PSI Elektronenstrahl-schweisstechnik
FS Fribourg
FS Biel
ETH Zürich TUB, D
FS Bern
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO /INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Chury – the rubber duck
hydrogen sulphidewater
carbon monoxide
carbon dioxide
methane
ammonia
methanol
sulphur dioxide
carbon disulfide
cyanide
“The perfume of 67P/C-G is quite strong, with the odour of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulphide), horse stable (ammonia), and the pungent, suffocating odour of formaldehyde. This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide. Add some whiff of alcohol (methanol) to this mixture, paired with the vinegar-like aroma of sulphur dioxide and a hint of the sweet aromatic scent of carbon disulphide, and you arrive at the ‘perfume’ of our comet.”
formaldehyde
3x10-4 1.5x10-41.5 x10-4
D/H
Which small bodies brought the terrestrial water?
LutetiaCredit: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS
67P/C-GCredit: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS
Hartley 2Credit:NASA
?
Asteroids Kuiper beltOort cloud
Deuterium to hydrogen ratio measurements
Water from Rosetta background
Water from the comet
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
3x10-
45.3x10-41.5x10-
4
D/H
Asteroids, Oort comets, Kuiper belt comets: which small bodies brought terrestrial water?
Temperature
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRISCredits: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS
Asteroids Kuiper beltOort cloud
Atoms: Sodium, Magnesium, Silicon und Calcium
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Sputtering by solar wind particles
Noble gases 36Ar & 38Ar
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Indicators for a very low formation temperature
Benzene
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Conclusion on habitability> The comet stinks due to a lot of
Sulfur, but there is molecular oxygen and water and there is even alcohol to drink -> it is habitable!
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Acknowledgements
The ROSINA (Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis) instrument package was designed and built by an international consortium led by the Space Research and Planetary Sciences Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. Hardware subsystems were delivered by: > the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASP), > Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP)> Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France, > Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (LMATC), Palo
Alto, MPS, Göttingen, Germany, > Institute of Computer and Network Engineering at the TUB> University of Michigan - Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space
Sciences.Thanks to the Rosetta team at ESA, especially the operations team in Darmstadt for taking excellent care of Rosetta and ROSINA.
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