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Four Years of Zodiacal Light Observations from the Helios Space Probes: Evidence for a Smooth Distribution of Interplanetary Dust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

C. Leinert ,
I. Richter ,
E. Pitz  and
M. Hanner
C. Leinert
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
I. Richter
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
E. Pitz
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Hanner
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA

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The zodiacal light experiments on Helios 1 and Helios 2 have been continually operating since launch in December 1974 and January 1976, respectively. The data support the view that the distribution of interplanetary dust is rather simple in space and quite constant in time. Instrument and data reduction have been described by Leinert et al. (1978). In the following we present Helios 2 data only.

Type
I: Zodiacal Light - Measurements and Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 15 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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