M. C. De Sanctis

Research interests

Publications

• The interior structure of Ceres as revealed by surface topography

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2017 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.053

• Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover

  Astrobiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1533

• Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aaj2305

• Bright carbonate deposits as evidence of aqueous alteration on (1) Ceres

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18290

• The geomorphology of Ceres

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf4332

• Detection of local H 2 O exposed at the surface of Ceres

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf3010

• Refractory and semi-volatile organics at the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Insights from the VIRTIS/Rosetta imaging spectrometer

  Icarus · 2016 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.028

• Dawn arrives at Ceres: Exploration of a small, volatile-rich world

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf4219

• Exposed water ice on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature16190

• Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer Solar System origin on (1) Ceres

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16172

• The organic-rich surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by VIRTIS/Rosetta

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0628

• The diurnal cycle of water ice on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14869

• High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · 10.1038/ngeo1769

• Dawn; the Vesta– HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites, diogenites, and howardites

  Meteoritics and Planetary Science · 2013 · 10.1111/maps.12108

• Vesta’s Shape and Morphology

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1219122

• The Violent Collisional History of Asteroid 4 Vesta

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1218757

• Distinctive space weathering on Vesta from regolith mixing processes

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11534

• DETECTION OF WIDESPREAD HYDRATED MATERIALS ON VESTA BY THE VIR IMAGING SPECTROMETER ON BOARD THE DAWN MISSION

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2012 · 10.1088/2041-8205/758/2/l36

• Dark material on Vesta from the infall of carbonaceous volatile-rich material

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11561

• Spectroscopic Characterization of Mineralogy and Its Diversity Across Vesta

  Science · 2012 · 10.1126/science.1219270

• Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm

  Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219381

• The Surface Composition and Temperature of Asteroid 21 Lutetia As Observed by Rosetta/VIRTIS

  Science · 2011 · 10.1126/science.1204062

• The VIR Spectrometer

  Space Science Reviews · 2010 · 10.1007/s11214-010-9668-5

• Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres

  Earth Moon and Planets · 2007 · 10.1007/s11038-007-9151-9

• Search for non-paulian transitions in 23Na and 127I

  Physics Letters B · 1997 · 10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00842-3

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