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SMITHThomas, 贺怀宇, 刘冉冉. 海王星探测:稀有气体和挥发分分析[J]. 深空探测学报(中英文), 2020, 7(6): 584-604. DOI: 10.15982/j.issn.2096-9287.2020.20200057
引用本文: SMITHThomas, 贺怀宇, 刘冉冉. 海王星探测:稀有气体和挥发分分析[J]. 深空探测学报(中英文), 2020, 7(6): 584-604. DOI: 10.15982/j.issn.2096-9287.2020.20200057
Reference format: SMITH T,HE H Y,LIU R R. The exploration of Neptune:a noble gas and volatile perspective[J]. Journal of Deep Space Exploration,2020,7 (6) : 584-604. DOI: 10.15982/j.issn.2096-9287.2020.20200057
Citation: Reference format: SMITH T,HE H Y,LIU R R. The exploration of Neptune:a noble gas and volatile perspective[J]. Journal of Deep Space Exploration,2020,7 (6) : 584-604. DOI: 10.15982/j.issn.2096-9287.2020.20200057

海王星探测:稀有气体和挥发分分析

The Exploration of Neptune:A Noble Gas and Volatile Perspective

  • 摘要: 地外天体的探测目标主要是太阳系中离地球较近的行星和天体,例如水星、金星、月球、火星、木星、小行星67P和近地小行星25143糸川。目前,人类还没有明确提出对太阳系中两大冰巨行星天王星和海王星的探测计划。人类探测仍停留在“旅行者2号”探测器分别于1986年1月和1989年8月飞掠天王星和海王星时传回的数据。在过去的几十年间,越来越多类属冰巨行星的系外行星被发现,而且冰巨行星比类似木星和土星的气态巨行星数量更多,加深对冰巨行星的了解势在必行。其中,行星大气组成,特别是稀有气体和挥发分的分布尤为重要。详细回顾了对太阳系中各天体挥发分的探测及结果;总结了天王星和海王星的稀有气体和挥发分的浓度、分布和演化过程;讨论了探索冰巨行星的星际探测任务的流程、可行性以及探测器载荷选择。提出了利用离子阱质谱仪作为中国外太阳系探测任务中探索冰巨行星科学载荷的可行性。

     

    Abstract: Most of the probes visiting other bodies in our Solar system only focused, due to technical shortcomings, on the exploration of the closer planets and planetary bodies and/or their natural satellites, i.e. Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, or the 25143 Itokawa near-Earth asteroid. At present time, no specific missions to one of the two ice giants of our Solar System, Uranus and Neptune, has been planned. Our knowledge of Uranus and Neptune is, therefore, so far restricted to the data which have been collected during the flyby of the Voyager 2 mission, in January 1986 and August 1989, respectively, and to observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope. Ice giants are, in our galaxy, thought to be much more abundant than gas giant planets such as Jupiter or Saturn, therefore a better knowledge of ice giants is essential for our understanding of exoplanet candidates. Among other scientific goals, the atmospheric composition of ice giants, with a particular emphasis on their noble gas and volatile distribution, is of great significance, and can constrain models about their formation and evolution. In this review, we report, in a first part, the volatile inventories and the measurements in the planetary bodies of our Solar System; in a second part, we will discuss the scientific background about the concentration, distribution, and evolution of noble gases and volatiles in Uranus and Neptune, and finally describe a possible scenario of a future interstellar probe visiting one of the two ice giants as well as the feasibility of such a space mission, in term of payloads selection and mission profile. We will as well briefly evoke the possibility of using an ion trap mass spectrometer, a potential payload for the ice giant atmospheric exploration, onboard a Chinese interstellar mission to the outer Solar system.

     

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