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20072024
most citedThe Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

485 citations · 890 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2024★ 41 cited

A Contact Binary Satellite of the Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh

Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll +3

Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are small enough for radiative torques, YORP, to be a notable factor in their evolution. (152830)…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 175 cited

Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt Object

S. A. Stern, H. A. Weaver, J. R. Spencer +202

The Kuiper Belt is a distant region of the Solar System. On 1 January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew close to (486958) 2014 MU69, a Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object, a cla…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 33 cited

In-Flight Performance and Calibration of the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) for the New Horizons Mission

H. A. Weaver, A. F. Cheng, F. Morgan +14

The LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is a panchromatic (360--910 nm), narrow-angle (field of view = 0.29 deg), high spatial resolution (pixel scale = 1.02 arcsec) visible l…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 485 cited

The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

S. A. Stern, F. Bagenal, K. Ennico +148

The Pluto system was recently explored by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, making closest approach on 14 July 2015. Pluto's surface displays diverse landforms, terrain ages, albedos…

astro-ph.EP2009

MRO/CRISM Retrieval of Surface Lambert Albedos for Multispectral Mapping of Mars with DISORT-based Rad. Transfer Modeling: Phase 1 - Using Historical Climatology for Temperatures, Aerosol Opacities, & Atmo. Pressures

P. C. McGuire, M. J. Wolff, M. D. Smith +22

We discuss the DISORT-based radiative transfer pipeline ('CRISM_LambertAlb') for atmospheric and thermal correction of MRO/CRISM data acquired in multispectral mapping mode (~200 m…

astro-ph2007★ 156 cited

Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons

A. F. Cheng, H. A. Weaver, S. J. Conard +13

The LOng-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the high resolution imaging instrument for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, its giant satellite Charon, its small moons Nix and Hy…