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most citedThe Atmosphere of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons

259 citations · 835 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP2020★ 10 cited

Bolometric Bond Albedo and Thermal Inertia Maps of Mimas

Carly Howett, John Spencer, Tom Nordheim

We use data from Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer CIRS to map Mimas' surface temperatures and its thermophysical properties. This provides a dramatic improvement on the wo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 136 cited

Reorientation of Sputnik Planitia implies a Subsurface Ocean on Pluto

F. Nimmo, D. P. Hamilton, W. B. McKinnon P. M. Schenk +60

The deep nitrogen-covered Sputnik Planitia (SP; informal name) basin on Pluto is located very close to the longitude of Pluto's tidal axis[1] and may be an impact feature [2], by a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 60 cited

Formation of Charon's Red Poles From Seasonally Cold-Trapped Volatiles

W. M. Grundy, D. P. Cruikshank, G. R. Gladstone +38

A unique feature of Pluto's large satellite Charon is its dark red northern polar cap. Similar colours on Pluto's surface have been attributed to organic macromolecules produced by…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 155 cited

Impact Craters on Pluto and Charon Indicate a Deficit of Small Kuiper Belt Objects

K. N. Singer, W. B. McKinnon, B. Gladman +20

The flyby of Pluto and Charon by the New Horizons spacecraft provided high-resolution images of cratered surfaces embedded in the Kuiper belt, an extensive region of bodies orbitin…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 71 cited

Plutos interaction with its space environment: Solar Wind, Energetic Particles & Dust

F. Bagenal, M. Horányi, D. J. McComas +23

The New Horizons spacecraft carried three instruments that measured the space environment near Pluto as it flew by on 14 July 2015. The Solar Wind Around Pluto instrument revealed…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 259 cited

The Atmosphere of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons

G. Randall Gladstone, S. Alan Stern, Kimberly Ennico +31

Observations made during the New Horizons flyby provide a detailed snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere. While the lower atmosphere (at altitudes <200 km) is consist…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 122 cited

Pluto's global surface composition through pixel-by-pixel Hapke modeling of New Horizons Ralph/LEISA data

S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, D. C. Reuter +20

On July 14th 2015, NASA's New Horizons mission gave us an unprecedented detailed view of the Pluto system. The complex compositional diversity of Pluto's encounter hemisphere was r…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 22 cited

Inflight Radiometric Calibration of New Horizons' Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)

C. J. A. Howett, A. H. Parker, C. B. Olkin +35

We discuss two semi-independent calibration techniques used to determine the in-flight radiometric calibration for the New Horizons' Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). T…