Octree modelling of dust cloud

A newly closed activity from the Technology Development Element (TDE) has developed an engineering model that gives a state-of-the-art insight into how dust behaves in the space environment. One of the processes required to turn the integrated particle trajectories into a modelled dust distribution in the inner solar system is saving the dust cloud as an octree object (a way of modelling three-dimensional space by giving each point eight 'children' points surrounding it). This shows an example Octree structure for the dust cloud in the ecliptic plane: example for a 50 µm Jupiter family comet data set.