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Active planetary exploration missions with Italian participation | |||
Mission | Space agency | Target | Launch year |
Cassini-Huygens | NASA/ESA | Saturn system | 1997 |
Mars Express | ESA | Mars | 2003 |
Rosetta | ESA | Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko | 2004 |
Mars Reconaissance Orbiter | NASA | Mars | 2005 |
Venus Express | ESA | Venus | 2005 |
Dawn | NASA | Vesta & Ceres | 2007 |
Juno | NASA | Jupiter system | 2011 |
MATISSE is the web based tool developed by SSDC SSE designed to access and visualize planetary exploration data.
In particular it provides direct visualization of high order products, such as mosaics and ratios, over 3D shape models
of selected targets, making scientific analysis easy, fast and accurate.
The ultimate aim of the tool is to enable "data fusion" in the planetary sciences, by means of an Intelligent Archive which is currently under development.
Thanks to MATISSE the scientific capabilities of each mission could be enhanced by combining observations
taken by various instruments, studying different aspects of the same target.
MATISSE 2.0 is now available, with the addition of noteworthy features.
However we are still collaborating with the scientific teams of the instruments involved to add other useful tasks to MATISSE in the near future.
SSDC SSE participation to scientific meetings | ||||
Conference | Place / Date | Authors | Abstract | Presentation |
XI Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie | Bormio (Italy) 4-8 Feb. 2013 | Zinzi A. et al. | - | - |
European Planetary Science Congress |
London (UK) 8-13 Sep. 2013 | Zinzi A. et al. | ||
PV 2013 | Frascati (Italy) 4-6 Nov. 2013 |
Zinzi A. et al. | ||
European Planetary Science Congress | Cascais (Portugal) 7-12 Sep. 2014 | Zinzi A. et al. | ||
XIII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie | Bormio (Italy) 21-26 Feb. 2016 | Zinzi A. et al. | - |
Latest Solar System News |
• (Sep 17, 2019) Planetary Geological Mapping project with SSDC participation published on GeoMedia |
• (Jul 20, 2019) The Moon and SSDC: examples from MATISSE Moon Mapping project and Fermi LAT |
• (Nov 05, 2018) NASA Dawn mission ends after 11 years |
• (Oct 10, 2018) SSDC interactive analysis tools among US Students: an american public school pioneer project |
• (Jun 11, 2018) MATISSE v1.5 online with a better 3D online visualization method |
• (June 28, 2016) ASDC participation to high-school outreach program |
• (June 28, 2016) MATISSE on Astrobetter |
• (May 23, 2016) The 4th Moon Mapping project Workshop |