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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…
A Search for Temporal Changes on Pluto and Charon
J. D. Hofgartner, B. J. Buratti, S. L. Devins +12
A search for temporal changes on Pluto and Charon was motivated by (1) the discovery of young surfaces in the Pluto system that imply ongoing or recent geologic activity, (2) the d…
New Horizons Constraints on Charon's Present Day Atmosphere
S. A. Stern, J. A. Kammer, G. R. Gladstone +12
We report on a variety of standard techniques used by New Horizons including a solar ultraviolet occultation, ultraviolet airglow observations, and high-phase look-back particulate…
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…