S. Massetti

Low energy high angular resolution neutral atom detection by means of micro-shuttering techniques: the BepiColombo SERENA/ELENA sensor (2008)

Orsini, S., Di Lellis, A. M., Milillo, A., De Angelis, E., Mura, A., Selci, S., ...

The neutral sensor ELENA (Emitted Low-Energy Neutral Atoms) for the ESA cornerstone BepiColombo mission to Mercury (in the SERENA instrument package) is a new kind of low energetic neutral atoms...

Space Weathering on Near-Earth Objects investigated by neutral-particle detection (2008)

Plainaki, C., Milillo, A., Orsini, S., Mura, A., De Angelis, E., Di Lellis, A. M., ...

The ion-sputtering (IS) process is active in many planetary environments in the Solar System where plasma precipitates directly on the surface (for instance, Mercury, Moon, Europa). In particular,...

ENA detection in the dayside of Mars: ASPERA-3 NPD statistical study (2008)

Mura, A., Orsini, S., Milillo, A., Kallio, E., Galli, A., Barabash, S., ...

Antiparallel magnetic merging signatures during IMF BY>>0: longitudinal and latitudinal cusp aurora bifurcations (2006)

Massetti, S.

A prominent dayside auroral event, occurred during an IMF BY-dominated time interval, and characterized by the contemporaneous longitudinal and latitudinal cusp bifurcations, is reported. The event...

Antiparallel magnetic merging signatures during IMF BY>>0: longitudinal and latitudinal cusp aurora bifurcations (2006)

Massetti, S.

A prominent dayside auroral event, occurred during an IMF BY-dominated time interval, and characterized by the contemporaneous longitudinal and latitudinal cusp bifurcations, is reported. The event...

Ground-level enhancements during solar cycle 23: results from SVIRCO, LOMNICKY STIT and LARC neutron monitors (2005)

Storini, M., Kudela, K., Cordaro, E. G., Massetti, S.

The list of Ground-Level Enhancements (GLEs) occurring during the on-going solar cycle (no. 23) is used to show that they are absent during a time interval of the maximum phase in which a relative...

Combined optical, EISCAT and magnetic observations of the omega bands/Ps6 pulsations and an auroral torch in the late morning hours: a case study (2005)

Safargaleev, V., Sergienko, T., Nilsson, H., Kozlovsky, A., Massetti, S., Osipenko, S., ...

We present here the results of multi-instrument observations of auroral torch and Ps6 magnetic pulsations, which are assumed to be the magnetic signature of the spatially periodic optical auroras...

Combined optical, EISCAT and magnetic observations of the omega bands/Ps6 pulsations and an auroral torch in the late morning hours: a case study (2005)

Safargaleev, V., Sergienko, T., Nilsson, H., Kozlovsky, A., Massetti, S., Osipenko, S., ...

We present here the results of multi-instrument observations of auroral torch and Ps6 magnetic pulsations, which are assumed to be the magnetic signature of the spatially periodic optical auroras...

The variability of Mercury's exosphere by particle and radiation induced surface release processes (2003)

Lammer, H., Wurz, P., Patel, M., Killen, R., Kolb, C., Massetti, S., ...

Mercury's close orbit around the Sun, its weak intrinsic magnetic field and the absence of an atmosphere (Psurface

Coordinated Ground-based, Low Altitude Satellite and Cluster Observations on Global and Local Scales During a Transient Post-noon Sector Excursion of the Magnetospheric Cusp (2001)

Opgenoorth, H. J., Lockwood, M., Alcaydé, D., Donovan, E., Engebretson, M. J., Van Eyken, A. P., ...

Ground-based and satellite observations of high-latitude auroral activity in the dusk sector of the auroral oval (2001)

Kauristie, K., Pulkkinen, T. I., Amm, O., Viljanen, A., Syrjäsuo, M., Janhunen, P., ...

On 7 December 2000, during 13:30?15:30 UT the MIRACLE all-sky camera at Ny Ålesund observed auroras at high-latitudes (MLAT ~ 76) simultaneously when the Cluster spacecraft were skimming the...

Ground-based and satellite observations of high-latitude auroral activity in the dusk sector of the auroral oval (2001)

Kauristie, K., Pulkkinen, T. I., Amm, O., Viljanen, A., Syrjäsuo, M., Janhunen, P., ...

On 7 December 2000, during 13:30?15:30 UT the MIRACLE all-sky camera at Ny Ålesund observed auroras at high-latitudes (MLAT ~ 76) simultaneously when the Cluster spacecraft were skimming the...

Coordinated ground-based, low altitude satellite and Cluster observations on global and local scales during a transient post-noon sector excursion of the magnetospheric cusp (2001)

Opgenoorth, H. J., Lockwood, M., Alcaydé, D., Donovan, E., Engebretson, M. J., Van Eyken, A. P., ...

On 14 January 2001, the four Cluster spacecraft passed through the northern magnetospheric mantle in close conjunction to the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) and approached the post-noon dayside...

Coordinated ground-based, low altitude satellite and Cluster observations on global and local scales during a transient post-noon sector excursion of the magnetospheric cusp (2001)

Opgenoorth, H. J., Lockwood, M., Alcaydé, D., Donovan, E., Engebretson, M. J., Van Eyken, A. P., ...

On 14 January 2001, the four Cluster spacecraft passed through the northern magnetospheric mantle in close conjunction to the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) and approached the post-noon dayside...