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Emergence, Construction, or Unlikely? Navigating the Space of Questions regarding Life's Origins
Stuart Bartlett, Michael L Wong
We survey some of the philosophical challenges and pitfalls within origins research. Several of these challenges exhibit circularities, paradoxes, or anthropic biases. We present o…
Claimed detection of PH in the clouds of Venus is consistent with mesospheric SO
Andrew P. Lincowski, Victoria S. Meadows, David Crisp +7
The observation of a 266.94 GHz feature in the Venus spectrum has been attributed to PH in the Venus clouds, suggesting unexpected geological, chemical or even biological proce…
Pluto's Haze as a Surface Material
W. M. Grundy, T. Bertrand, R. P. Binzel +37
Pluto's atmospheric haze settles out rapidly compared with geological timescales. It needs to be accounted for as a surface material, distinct from Pluto's icy bedrock and from the…
Structure and Composition of Pluto's atmosphere from the New Horizons Solar Ultraviolet Occultation
Leslie A. Young, Joshua A. Kammer, Andrew J. Steffl +23
The Alice instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed an ultraviolet solar occultation by Pluto's atmosphere on 2015 July 14. The transmission vs. altitude was sensitive…
Constraints on the Microphysics of Pluto's Photochemical Haze from New Horizons Observations
Peter Gao, Siteng Fan, Michael L. Wong +12
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto confirmed the existence of hazes in its atmosphere. Observations of a large high- to low- phase brightness ratio, combined with the blue color of th…
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…
Superionic to superionic phase change in water: consequences for the interiors of Uranus and Neptune
Hugh F. Wilson, Michael L. Wong, Burkhard Militzer
Using density functional molecular dynamics free energy calculations, we show that the body-centered-cubic phase of superionic ice previously believed to be the only phase is in fa…