Instrument Information
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| IDENTIFIER |
urn:esa:psa:context:instrument:rl.sesame::1.2
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| NAME |
The Surface Electric Sounding and Acoustic Monitoring Experiment for the Rosetta Philae Lander
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| TYPE |
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| DESCRIPTION |
The SESAME experiment contained three parts: The Comet Acoustic Surface Sounding Experiment (CASSE); the Dust Impact Monitor (DIM); and the Permitivity Probe (PP). CASSE consisted of accelerometers and Piezo stacks mounted on the bottom of the Philae lander's feet to record and generate vibrations in the audible frequency range. DIM was a piezoelectric detector and analyzer for the impacts of cometary dust particles. PP used a quadrupole configuration of sensors on various parts of the Philae lander, with metal meshes on the feet of the lander touching the comet surface and three transmitters located on the lander, to measure the permissivity of the surface material on the comet nucleus.
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| MODEL IDENTIFIER |
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| NAIF INSTRUMENT IDENTIFIER |
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| SERIAL NUMBER |
not applicable
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| REFERENCES |
K. J. Seidensticker et al., Sesame - An Experiment of the Rosetta Lander Philae: Objectives and General Design, Space Sci. Rev., 128(1-4), 301-337, Feb. 2007.
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