火星轨道器次表层探测雷达的水冰探测

在地球上,水是生命存在的基础之一。大量证据表明火星表面曾经存在液态水,而目前的火星表面环境不支持液态水的长期存在。因此,水可能以不同的状态赋存于火星的次表层。寻找火星次表层的水一直是火星探测的关键科学目标之一。次表层探测雷达,如探地雷达、探冰雷达,是了解地下物质结构的有效方法,近年来在地外天体上得到大量应用。在过去十余年,欧洲的火星快车(Mars Express)上搭载的火星次表层和电离层探测先进雷达(Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, MARSIS)和美国火星勘测轨道飞行器(Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO)上搭载的浅表层雷达(Shallow Subsurface Radar, SHARAD)已在火星轨道上获取了大量数据,被广泛应用于研究火星的地下结构,尤其是地下水冰探测。我国的天问一号火星探测器也携带了高低频轨道探测雷达和高低频火星车探地雷达,有望在不同的顺轨向、交轨向和距离向分辨率上揭示火星次表层不同深部的结构。本文综述了轨道器次表层探测雷达的探测原理和优势,简要介...     

卫星重力探测技术的发展

在地球物理勘探领域中,人造地球卫星的发射为重力测量提供了新的途径。与以往探测重力的手段相比,重力卫星的发射大大改善了人们对地球重力场的认识,随着CHAMP、GRACE和GOCE卫星的发射,将把现有静态中长波部分重力场的精度提高1—2个数量级,并提供长波部分重力场随时间变化的信息。卫星重力学对我国的基础测绘服务和国防建设有着重要的实用价值。     

Modelling dust distributions in the atmospheric boundary layer on Mars

A time and height dependent eddy diffusion model is used to investigate possible scenarios for the size distribution of dust in the lower atmosphere of Mars. The dust is assumed to either have been advected from a distant source or to have originated locally. In the former case, the atmosphere is assumed to initially contain dust particles with sizes following a modified gamma distribution. Larger particles are deposited relatively rapidly while small particles are well mixed up to the maximum height of the afternoon boundary layer and are deposited more slowly. In other cases, a parameterization of the dust source at the surface is proposed. Model results show that smaller particles are rapidly mixed within the Martian boundary layer, while larger particles (r > 10 μm) are concentrated near the ground with a stronger diurnal cycle. In all simulations we assume that the initial concentration or surface source depend on a modified gamma function distribution. For small particles (cross- sectional area weighted mean radius, r_eff = 1.6 μm) distributions retain essentially the same form, though with variations in the mean and variance of the area-weighted radius, and the gamma function can be used to represent the particle size distribution reasonably well at most heights within the boundary layer. In the case of a surface source of larger particles (mean radius 50 μm) the modified gamma function does not fit the resulting particle size distribution. All results are normalised by a scaling factor that can be adjusted to correspond to an optical depth for assumed particle optical scattering properties.     

一次暴雨过程数值模拟与诊断分析

利用NCEP/NCAR分辨率为1°×1°再分析资料和气象台实测降水资料及TRMM 3 h降水资料,采用WRF中尺度数值模式,对2010年7月22日发生在黄河流域中游南部的一次暴雨过程进行了数值模拟及诊断分析。结果表明：WRF模式能较为成功的模拟出本次暴雨过程。此次暴雨在大尺度环流形势上,是由于西太平洋副热带高压与河套低压槽的共同影响产生的;来自印度洋、中国南海的大量水汽输送为暴雨提供了充足的水汽来源。处于200 hPa的高空急流,由于地转调整激发出了中尺度重力波,使用散度场、云水分布,能够确定中尺度重力波的存在和移动方向。在利用模拟资料分析重力波对甘肃省东部地区暴雨产生的原因时得出：高空急流中产生的中尺度重力波与低层大气对中尺度重力波的吸收作用,共同导致了该地暴雨的发生。由高空急流风向和非线性平衡方程的数值分布情况,可以提前判断中尺度重力波发生的区域和移动方向,从而能够提前对暴雨可能发生的区域和时间作出预报。     

在嫦娥一号探月工程中求定月球重力场

月球重力场制约着近月外空间物体的运动,同时环月飞行器的运动也反映了月球重力场的作用. 本文结合我国嫦娥一号探月工程,探讨了利用月球卫星的地面跟踪资料,求定月球重力场的基本理论和方法,分析了环月卫星的轨道高度、地面跟踪采样时间间隔和跟踪精度等对求定月球重力场的影响. 若单独利用我国嫦娥一号探月工程的地面跟踪数据,恢复30阶次左右的月球重力场模型是一个比较实际的目标. 地面跟踪最好能以75s的时间间隔进行采样,数据连续提供时间应不少于30个昼夜,月球卫星星下点的月面轨迹间距不大于110km.     

Development of the second-order derivatives of the Earth’s potential in the local north-oriented reference frame in orthogonal series of modified spherical harmonics

The second-order derivatives of the Earth’s potential in the local north-oriented reference frame are expanded in series of modified spherical harmonics. Linear relations are derived between the spectral coefficients of these series and the spectrum of the geopotential. On the basis of these relations, recurrence procedures are developed for evaluating the geopotential coefficients from the spectrum of each derivative and, inversely, for simulating the latter from a known geopotential model. Very simple structure of the derived expressions for the derivatives is convenient for estimating the geopotential coefficients by the least-squares procedure, at a certain step of processing satellite gradiometry data. Due to the orthogonality of the new series, the quadrature formula approach can be also applied, which allows avoidance of aliasing errors caused by the series truncation. The spectral coefficients of the derivatives are evaluated on the basis of the derived relations from the geopotential models EGM96 and EIGEN-CG01C at a mean orbital sphere of the GOCE satellite. Various characteristics of the spectra are studied corresponding to the EGM96 model. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

中国城镇化发展的地理学贡献与责任使命

城镇化是中国全面建成小康社会和实现现代化的必由之路,中国城镇化不仅决定着中国的未来,而且决定着世界城镇化的进程。近35 a来中国地理学家对中国城镇化发展做出了重要贡献,主要表现在：首次提出了城镇化的概念,推动城镇化上升为国家战略;率先将Northam提出的城镇化发展三阶段论修正为四阶段论;提出了中国城镇化发展合理进程并被《国家新型城镇化规划》采用;研制了中国新型城镇化综合区划,构建了中国新型城镇化合理格局;率先研制了城镇化发展质量定量测度方法与系统,为提升城镇化发展质量提供了技术支撑;较早发布了《中国新型城镇化发展报告》,提出了新型城镇化发展的通用模式和差异模式;首次提出了城镇化与生态环境耦合圈理论与技术图谱。中国地理学家在城镇化这一多学科研究的重大领域中经常扮演着组织者角色,并担当重任,主要是：综合分析城镇化发展面临的问题及国际经验,探索城镇化发展的驱动机制与基本规律,辨析城镇化发展的空间格局和差异模式,揭示城镇化发展与资源环境的耦合关系,模拟预警城镇化发展的多种情景与风险,选择城镇化发展质量提升的可持续之路。今后一段时间内,创新国家新型城镇化高质量发展理论,优化“一带一路”背景下中国城镇化发展的空间格局,揭示中国城镇化与生态环境交互耦合机理及规律,研制中国城镇化发展的智能决策支持系统与引导政策,是中国城镇化发展的地理学使命。     

X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Mineral Intergrowths in the Santa Catharina Meteorite

This work describes the application of microfocus X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photo-emission electron microscopy (XPEEM) to the study of the complex mineralogical intergrowths within the Santa Catharina meteorite. The Santa Catharina meteorite of this study (BM52283 from the meteorite collection of the Natural History Museum, London, UK) primarily comprises a taenite bulk host phase (Fe:Ni ratio = 70.9 ± 0.8%:29.1 ± 0.8%) with a set of oxide-bearing cloudy zone textured regions (Fe:Ni:O ratio = 40.4 ± 0.3%:49.0 ± 0.7%:10.6 ± 0.8% at the core and Fe:Ni:O ratio = 34.4 ± 1.5%:42.7 ± 0.6%:22.9 ± 1.8% towards the rims) and numerous schreibersite (Fe:Ni:P ratio = 38.6 ± 1.6%:38.4 ± 0.9%:23.0 ± 0.5%) inclusions. Between the schreibersite and the taenite are rims up to 50 μm across of Ni-rich kamacite (Fe:Ni ratio = 93.4 ± 0.4%:6.6 ± 0.5%). No chemical zoning or spatial variations in the Fe and Ni speciation was observed within either the schreibersite or the kamacite phases. The oxide-bearing cloudy zone textured regions mostly comprise metallic Fe–Ni alloy, predominantly tetrataenite. Within the oxide phases, the Fe is predominantly, but not entirely, tetrahedrally co-ordinated Fe³⁺ and the Ni is octahedrally co-ordinated Ni²⁺. Structural analysis supports the suggestion that non-stoichiometric Fe₂NiO₄ trevorite is the oxide phase. The trevorite:tetrataenite ratio increases at the edges of the oxide-bearing cloudy zone textured regions indicating increased oxidation at the edges of these zones. The spatial resolution of the XPEEM achieved was between 110 and 150 nm, which precluded the study of either the previously reported ∼ 10 nm precipitates of tetrataenite within the bulk taenite or any antitaenite.     

What can we expect from the in situ chemical investigation of a cometary nucleus by gas chromatography: First results from laboratory studies

Comets are probably the most primitive bodies of the solar system, and they participated in the early bombardment of the primitive planets. Consequently, the knowledge of their composition can play a key role in our understanding of the solar system formation, the origin of the planetary volatile constituents, and the origin of the organics implied in terrestrial prebiotic chemistry. However, we still do not have any direct information about the molecular composition of the cometary nucleus. This is why the COmetary SAmpling and Composition experiment (COSAC), onboard the surface landing probe of the Rosetta cometary mission, is specifically devoted to the molecular and enantiomeric analysis of a cometary nucleus. This experiment includes a gas chromatograph instrument dedicated to the specific identification and quantification of the general molecular species present in samples collected at the nucleus surface. In order to evaluate the performances of the integrated chromatographic system which was selected for the flight model instrument, experiments were carried out with a laboratory set up that reproduced the flight configuration and mimicked the in situ operating conditions. The obtained results demonstrate the ability for the gas chromatograph to identify a wide range of organic and inorganic volatile compounds, even those present at trace level, within the constrained space operating conditions. The aim of this paper is to present, for the first time, the performances of this system and to discuss the potential role of in situ gas chromatographic measurements in the future cometary, planetological and prebiotic chemistry studies.     

ADVANTAGES OF SEARCHING FOR ASTEROIDS FROM LOW EARTH ORBIT: THE NEOSSat MISSION

Space-based observatories have several advantages over ground-based observatories in searching for asteroids and comets. In particular, the Aten and Interior to Earth’s Orbit (IEO) asteroid classes may be efficiently sought at low solar elongations along the ecliptic plane. A telescope in low Earth orbit has a sufficiently long orbital baseline to determine the parallax for all Aten and IEO class asteroids discovered with this observing strategy. The Near Earth Object Space Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) mission will launch a microsatellite to exploit this observing strategy complementing ground-based search programmes.