The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons
- S. Stern, F. Bagenal, E. Zirnstein
- Geology, PhysicsScience
- 16 October 2015
The New Horizons encounter revealed that Pluto displays a surprisingly wide variety of geological landforms, including those resulting from glaciological and surface-atmosphere interactions as well as impact, tectonic, possible cryovolcanic, and mass-wasting processes.
Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon
The New Horizons team presents the complex surface features and geology of Pluto and its large moon Charon, including evidence of tectonics, glacial flow, and possible cryovolcanoes, as well as their analysis of the encounter data downloaded so far.
The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons
- H. Weaver, M. Buie, A. Zangari
- Geology, PhysicsScience
- 18 March 2016
The New Horizons results on Pluto’s small moons help to elucidate the conditions under which the Pluto system formed and evolved, and massively increase the understanding of the bodies in the outer solar system.
Saturn's F Ring: Kinematics and Particle Sizes from Stellar Occultation Studies
- A. Bosh, C. Olkin, R. French, P. Nicholson
- Physics
- 1 May 2002
Abstract The occultation of GSC5249-01240 by Saturn's rings was observed in a spectrally resolved mode using the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. By combining these data with…
Ralph: A Visible/Infrared Imager for the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt Mission
The New Horizons instrument named Ralph is a visible/near infrared multi-spectral imager and a short wavelength infrared spectral imager. It is one of the core instruments on New Horizons, NASA’s…
The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons
- G. Gladstone, S. Stern, G. Tyler
- Environmental Science, GeologyScience
- 18 March 2016
The New Horizons team presents the complex surface features and geology of Pluto and its large moon Charon, including evidence of tectonics, glacial flow, and possible cryovolcanoes, and their analysis of the encounter data downloaded so far.
The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons
- J. Moore, W. McKinnon, D. Wilhelms
- GeologyScience
- 18 March 2016
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has revealed a complex geology of Pluto and Charon, including evidence of tectonics, glacial flow, and possible cryovolcanoes, and these findings massively increase the understanding of the bodies in the outer solar system.
New Horizons Mapping of Europa and Ganymede
- W. Grundy, B. Buratti, H. Weaver
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 12 October 2007
Visual wavelength images of Europa extend knowledge of its global pattern of arcuate troughs and show that its surface scatters light more isotropically than other icy satellites.
Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object
- S. Stern, H. Weaver, T. Zurbuchen
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 17 May 2019
The New Horizons spacecraft completed its MU69 flyby on 1 January 2019, with a closest approach distance of 3538 km—less than one-third of its closest distance to Pluto.
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