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Lunar Volatiles and Solar System Science
Parvathy Prem, Ákos Kereszturi, Ariel N. Deutsch +38
Understanding the origin and evolution of the lunar volatile system is not only compelling lunar science, but also fundamental Solar System science. This white paper (submitted to…
FUV Observations of the Inner Coma of 46P/Wirtanen
John W. Noonan, Walter M. Harris, Steven Bromley +6
Far ultraviolet observations of comets yield information about the energetic processes that dissociate the sublimated gases from their primitive surfaces. Understanding which emiss…
The Fundamental Connections Between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science
Stephen R. Kane, Giada N. Arney, Paul K. Byrne +7
Over the past several decades, thousands of planets have been discovered outside of our Solar System. These planets exhibit enormous diversity, and their large numbers provide a st…
Escape and evolution of Titan's N atmosphere constrained by N/N isotope ratios
N. V. Erkaev, M. Scherf, S. E. Thaller +4
We apply a 1D upper atmosphere model to study thermal escape of nitrogen over Titan's history. Significant thermal escape should have occurred very early for solar EUV fluxes 100 t…
Ice Giant System Exploration in the 2020s: An Introduction
L. N. Fletcher, A. A. Simon, M. D. Hofstadter +5
The international planetary science community met in London in January 2020, united in the goal of realising the first dedicated robotic mission to the distant Ice Giants, Uranus a…
Modeling Pluto's Minimum Pressure: Implications for Haze Production
Perianne E. Johnson, Leslie A. Young, Silvia Protopapa +6
Pluto has a heterogeneous surface, despite a global haze deposition rate of ~1 micrometer per orbit (Cheng et al., 2017; Grundy et al., 2018). While there could be spatial variatio…
The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes
Conor A. Nixon, James Abshire, Andrew Ashton +36
We outline a flagship-class mission concept focused on studying Titan as a global system, with particular emphasis on the polar regions. Investigating Titan from the unique standpo…
Exoplanets in our Backyard: A report from an interdisciplinary community workshop and a call to combined action
Giada N. Arney, Noam R. Izenberg, Stephen R. Kane +5
This is a white paper submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. The Exoplanets in our Backyard meeting was born out of a recognition of the value and pote…
Key Atmospheric Signatures for Identifying the Source Reservoirs of Volatiles in Uranus and Neptune
O. Mousis, A. Aguichine, D. H. Atkinson +5
We investigate the enrichment patterns of several delivery scenarios of the volatiles to the atmospheres of ice giants, having in mind that the only well constrained determination…
The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
D. Bodewits, J. W. Noonan, P. D. Feldman +7
Interstellar comets offer direct samples of volatiles from distant protoplanetary disks. 2I/Borisov is the first notably active interstellar comet discovered in our solar system[1]…
Exploration Strategy for the Outer Planets 2023-2032: Goals and Priorities
Jeff Moore, Linda Spilker, Morgan Cable +12
The outer solar system has a diverse range of objects, holding important clues about the formation and evolution of our solar system, the emergence and current distribution of life…