A Research on the Imaging Strategy and Imaging Simulation of Toutatis in the Chang’e-2 Flyby Mission     

ZHAO Yu-hui  WANG Su  HU Shou-cun  JI Jiang-hui 《Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics》2014

For the Chang’e-2 extended mission of asteroid exploration, the illumination conditions for imaging the asteroid Toutatis are calculated in this paper according to the orbital parameters of both the Chang’e-2 detector and the asteroid, as well as the incident angles of sunlight. On this basis, it is suggested to take photographs after flyby, and the orientation of the camera's optical axis in the coordinate system deflned by Earth's mean equator and equinox at J2000.0 is proposed to be (118.02°, 22.03°). Based on the shape model of Toutatis determined by the foreign radar data, the orientation of the asteroid in the inertial space is calculated at the rendezvous time. Using the Oren-Nayar diffuse-reflection model and the relative positions among the sun, the asteroid, and the detector, together with the cameras orientation, the imaging simulations are performed on the starry sky background respectively at the distances of 300 km, 500 km, and 1000 km from the asteroid after flyby. The results of simulations are verified further by the optical images of Toutatis obtained in the mission.  相似文献   

略论海洋测高卫星GPS厘米级定轨的实施基础          下载免费PDF全文

刘基余 《海洋测绘》2010,30(6):1-4

基于对多种飞机的机载GPS测量实践,认为我国HY-2海洋二号卫星实现厘米级精度的星载GPS定轨测量的基础是:选择适合天线,捕获多颗在视GPS卫星;注重天线安装位置,减弱多路径效应影响;选择适合GPS信号接收机,确保星载GPS测量数据优质。  相似文献   

一种提高北斗系统中低纬度无源定位精度的改进方法     

王磊  翟国君  刘雁春  黄谟涛  孟婵媛 《测绘科学》2007,32(3):67-68,66

本文提出一种提高北斗系统中低纬度无源定位精度的方法,利用星际间单差及高程约束来提高定位精度。与传统方法相比,新方法具有更高的精度及较好的稳定性,仿真结果表明,在中低纬度地区定位精度可达50~200M。  相似文献   

北斗三星无源导航定位技术研究     

方兆宝  夏哲仁  赵培海  周琼华  田震华  许泽明 《海洋测绘》2007,27(2):15-17

简述北斗三星无源导航定位的原理及定位误差源。探讨用最优估计理论和方法,即卡尔曼滤波技术,消除北斗三星无源定位数据中随机误差的方法。对华南沿海北斗三星无源定位实验数据进行滤波处理,结果表明:(1)北斗三星无源定位单点定位精度在纬度方向为±58m,经度方向为±4.3m,经卡尔曼滤波后其单点定位精度在纬度方向为±43m,经度方向为±3.6m;(2)北斗三星定位误差主要分布在纬度方向;(3)通过卡尔曼滤波可使北斗三星无源定位精度提高25%。  相似文献   

Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan     

Giuseppe Mitri  Adam P. Showman  Ralph D. Lorenz 《Icarus》2007,186(2):385-394

The Huygens Probe detected dendritic drainage-like features, methane clouds and a high surface relative humidity (∼50%) on Titan in the vicinity of its landing site [Tomasko, M.G., and 39 colleagues, 2005. Nature 438, 765-778; Niemann, H.B., and 17 colleagues, 2005. Nature 438, 779-784], suggesting sources of methane that replenish this gas against photo- and charged-particle chemical loss on short (10-100) million year timescales [Atreya, S.K., Adams, E.Y., Niemann, H.B., Demick-Montelara, J.E., Owen, T.C., Fulchignoni, M., Ferri, F., Wilson, E.H., 2006. Planet. Space Sci. In press]. On the other hand, Cassini Orbiter remote sensing shows dry and even desert-like landscapes with dunes [Lorenz, R.D., and 39 colleagues, 2006a. Science 312, 724-727], some areas worked by fluvial erosion, but no large-scale bodies of liquid [Elachi, C., and 34 colleagues, 2005. Science 308, 970-974]. Either the atmospheric methane relative humidity is declining in a steady fashion over time, or the sources that maintain the relative humidity are geographically restricted, small, or hidden within the crust itself. In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the present-day methane relative humidity is maintained entirely by lakes that cover a small part of the surface area of Titan. We calculate the required minimum surface area coverage of such lakes, assess the stabilizing influence of ethane, and the implications for moist convection in the atmosphere. We show that, under Titan's surface conditions, methane evaporates rapidly enough that shorelines of any existing lakes could potentially migrate by several hundred m to tens of km per year, rates that could be detected by the Cassini orbiter. We furthermore show that the high relative humidity of methane in Titan's lower atmosphere could be maintained by evaporation from lakes covering only 0.002-0.02 of the whole surface.  相似文献   

The formation of Ganymede's grooved terrain: Numerical modeling of extensional necking instabilities     

Michael T. Bland  Adam P. Showman 《Icarus》2007,189(2):439-456

Ganymede's grooved terrain likely formed during an epoch of global expansion, when unstable extension of the lithosphere resulted in the development of periodic necking instabilities. Linear, infinitesimal-strain models of extensional necking support this model of groove formation, finding that the fastest growing modes of an instability have wavelengths and growth rates consistent with Ganymede's grooves. However, several questions remain unanswered, including how nonlinearities affect instability growth at large strains, and what role instabilities play in tectonically resurfacing preexisting terrain. To address these questions we numerically model the extension of an icy lithosphere to examine the growth of periodic necking instabilities over a broad range of strain rates and temperature gradients. We explored thermal gradients up to 45 K km⁻¹ and found that, at infinitesimal strain, maximum growth rates occur at high temperature gradients (45 K km⁻¹) and moderate strain rates (10⁻¹³ s⁻¹). Dominant wavelengths range from 1.8 to 16.4 km (post extension). Our infinitesimal growth rates are qualitatively consistent with, but an order of magnitude lower than, previous linearized calculations. When strain exceeds ∼10% growth rates decrease, limiting the total amount of amplification that can result from unstable extension. This fall-off in growth occurs at lower groove amplitudes for high-temperature-gradient, thin-lithosphere simulations than for low-temperature-gradient, thick-lithosphere simulations. At large strains, this shifts the ideal conditions for producing large amplitude grooves from high temperature gradients to more moderate temperature gradients (15 K km⁻¹). We find that the formation of periodic necking instabilities can modify preexisting terrain, replacing semi-random topography up to 100 m in amplitude with periodic ridges and troughs, assisting the tectonic resurfacing process. Despite this success, the small topographic amplification produced by our model presents a formidable challenge to the necking instability mechanism for groove formation. Success of the necking instability mechanism may require rheological weakening or strain localization by faulting, effects not included in our analysis.  相似文献   

A deeper look at the colors of the saturnian irregular satellites     

Tommy Grav  James Bauer 《Icarus》2007,191(1):267-285

We have performed broadband color photometry of the twelve brightest irregular satellites of Saturn with the goal of understanding their surface composition, as well as their physical relationship. We find that the satellites have a wide variety of different surface colors, from the negative spectral slopes of the two retrograde satellites S IX Phoebe (S^′=−2.5±0.4) and S XXV Mundilfari (S^′=−5.0±1.9) to the fairly red slope of S XXII Ijiraq (S^′=19.5±0.9). We further find that there exist a correlation between dynamical families and spectral slope, with the prograde clusters, the Gallic and Inuit, showing tight clustering in colors among most of their members. The retrograde objects are dynamically and physically more dispersed, but some internal structure is apparent.  相似文献   

GPS卫星原子钟频率稳定度表征方法分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

冯遂亮  宋力杰 《全球定位系统》2009,34(1):19-23

原子钟频率稳定度的表征通常在时域和频域进行，而对于“尺度域”小波方差表征方法的分析研究较少。对该方法进行系统归纳总结的基础上，给出时域尺度域两类不同表征方法的实用计算公式及其置信度计算方法，通过对各种方差特性的比较分析，指出其适用范围。分析表明：时域系列方差计算简单、直接，各具特点，可以满足不同的实际需要；尺度域的小波方差是一种具有独特优越性的新方法，但可以达到时域表征方法的效果，适用于进行原子钟频率稳定度的估计。  相似文献   

Degree-one convection and the origin of Enceladus' dichotomy     

M. Grott  F. Sohl 《Icarus》2007,191(1):203-210

Recently, the Cassini spacecraft has detected ongoing geologic activity near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. In contrast, the satellite's north-polar region is heavily cratered and appears to have been geologically inactive for a long time. We propose that this hemispheric dichotomy is caused by interior dynamics with degree-one convection driving the south-polar activity. We investigate a number of core sizes and internal heating rates for which degree-one convection occurs. The numerical simulations imply that a core radius of less than 100±20 km and an energy input at a rate of 3.0 to 5.5 GW would be required for degree-one convection to prevail. This is within the range of the observed thermal power release near Enceladus' south pole. Provided that Enceladus is not fully differentiated, degree-one convection is found to be a viable mechanism to explain Enceladus' hemispheric dichotomy.  相似文献   

Irregular Satellites of Jupiter: a study of the capture direction     

Douglas Soldan de Oliveira  Othon Cabo Winter  Ernesto Vieira Neto  Gislaine de Felipe 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2007,100(3-4):233-239

The irregular satellites of Jupiter are believed to be captured asteroids or planetesimals. In the present work is studied the direction of capture of these objects as a function of their orbital inclination. We performed numerical simulations of the restricted three-body problem, Sun-Jupiter-particle, taking into account the growth of Jupiter. The integration was made backward in time. Initially, the particles have orbits as satellites of Jupiter, which has its present mass. Then, the system evolved with Jupiter losing mass and the satellites escaping from the planet. The reverse of the escape direction corresponds to the capture direction. The results show that the Lagrangian points L1 and L2 mainly guide the direction of capture. Prograde satellites are captured through these two gates with very narrow amplitude angles. In the case of retrograde satellites, these two gates are wider. The capture region increases as the orbital inclination increases. In the case of planar retrograde satellites the directions of capture cover the whole 360° around Jupiter. We also verified that prograde satellites are captured earlier in actual time than retrograde ones. This paper was presented at the Asteriods, Comets and Meteors meeting held at Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August 2005 and could not be included in the special issue related to that conference.  相似文献