GIADA

Instrument: 

GIADA (Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator)

Mission: Rosetta Mission (ESA)
Target: Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Description: 

Dust flux measurement for "direct" and "reflected" grains.

Study of dust evolution in the coma. Correlation of dust changes with nucleus evolution and emission anisotropy. Determination of dust to gas ratio.

IAA development: 

GIADA2: Power Conversion and Distribution, CPU and onboard software.

Status: Scientific mission completed.
Launch date: March, 2004
Final date: September, 2016
URL project: 

http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/35061-instruments/?fbodylongid=1639