Summary of interplanetary and interstellar dust observation by Mars Dust Counter on board NOZOMI

• Published in: Advances in space research Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 485 - 488
• Main Authors: Sasaki, S., Igenbergs, E., Ohashi, H., Senger, R., Münzenmayer, R., Naumann, W., Grün, E., Nogami, K., Mann, I., Svedhem, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2007
• Subjects: Circumterrestrial dust; Dust detector; Interplanetary dust; Interstellar dust; Meteor stream; NOZOMI; Japan; Circumterrestrial dust; Meteor stream; Interplanetary dust; Interstellar dust; Dust detector; NOZOMI

Mars Dust Counter (MDC) is a light-weight dust detector of impact ionization type on board Japanese Mars mission NOZOMI. NOZOMI was launched on July 4th (3rd at UT) 1998. From December 1998 to December 2003 for five years, NOZOMI took eccentric orbits between the Earth’s and Mars’ orbits. Until Apri...