Introduction: NEAR Shoemaker and HAYABUSA landed on asteroids and Philae of Roset-ta mission and HAYABUSA-2 are going to land on Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and 1999 JU3 asteroid , respectively, as of writing this abstract. For such missions in the future, we suggest dust monitoring instrument on a CubeSat dispatched to the target body from the main spacecraft. CubeSat is a type of minia-turize...

Asian dust is a springtime meteorological phenomenon that originates in the deserts of China and Mongolia. The dust is carried by prevailing winds across East Asia where it causes serious health problems. Most of the information available on the impact of Asian dust on human health is based on epidemiological investigations, so from a biological standpoint little is known of its effects. To cla...

as surfactants enhance the membrane transport of organic compounds, it has to be assumed that they decisively influence the absorption of pollutants from house dust. sampling sites for the surfactant analysis include housing areas, each location of which has different surroundings such as rural, urban, construction, and industrial area. three stations had been selected for each housing area and...

the aim of this study is to determine the area affected by dust storms in different wind speeds using satelliteimages. in the first step, windy conditions of the sistan plain were analyzed using wind statistics data. next, fivestormy days of zabol city, indicating different wind speeds and horizontal visibilities during those storms, wereselected. then, high temporal resolution modis data was u...

Soil dust is a major constituent of airborne particles in the global atmosphere. Dust plumes frequently cover huge areas of the earth; they are one of the most prominent and commonly visible features in satellite imagery. Dust is believed to play a role in many biogeochemical processes, but the importance of dust in these processes is not well understood because of the dearth of information abo...

The Deep Impact target comet 9P/Tempel 1 was observed by means of longslit spectroscopy from two nights before impact up to eight nights after impact, using the ESO VLT UT1, UT2, and ESO NTT telescopes. Spectra covering the complete optical wavelength range were obtained, and information at different position angles in the coma was collected. The data were used to study the gas and dust activit...

The study presents results from measurements of the mineral composition and other properties of soil, based on 13 samples at four locations in the Saudi Arabian coastal plane adjacent to the Red Sea. The region has been understudied so far, although it is an important source of wind blown dust with at least regional impact on human health, climate, and ecosystems. There is a great need for meas...

The Deep Impact encounter with the nucleus of 9P/Tempel ejected small grains (a . 10 μm) into the comet’s coma, evidenced by thermal emission from small dust grains at mid-infrared wavelengths (λ ∼ 10 μm) and dynamical simulations of optical images. Meteor-sized particles (a & 100 μm) ejected by the impact will likely have the lowest ejection velocities and will weakly interact with solar radia...