The Pluto System After New Horizons

SA Stern, WM Grundy, WB McKinnon… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The New Horizons (NH) flyby of the Pluto–Charon binary planet and its system of four small
surrounding satellites in mid-2015 revolutionized our knowledge of this distant planet and its …

Planetary caves: A solar system view of processes and products

JJ Wynne, JE Mylroie, TN Titus… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first solar system wide compendium of speleogenic processes and products.
An examination of 15 solar system bodies revealed that six cave‐forming processes occur …

Impact craters on Pluto and Charon indicate a deficit of small Kuiper belt objects

KN Singer, WB McKinnon, B Gladman, S Greenstreet… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The flyby of Pluto and Charon by the New Horizons spacecraft provided high-resolution
images of cratered surfaces embedded in the Kuiper belt, an extensive region of bodies …

Topography and geology of Uranian mid-sized icy satellites in comparison with Saturnian and Plutonian satellites

PM Schenk, JM Moore - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Newly processed global imaging and topographic map** of Uranus's five major satellites
reveal differences and similarities to mid-sized satellites at Saturn and Pluto. Three modes of …

Evidence for a hot start and early ocean formation on Pluto

CJ Bierson, F Nimmo, SA Stern - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
Pluto is thought to possess a present-day ocean beneath a thick ice shell. It has generally
been assumed that Pluto accreted from cold material and then later developed its ocean due …

New global topography of Enceladus: Hypsometry, basins, spherical harmonics, shell thickness, and true polar wander revisited

PM Schenk, WB McKinnon - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
A new global high-resolution stereogrammetric and photogrammetric topographic map and
updated 3-color global mosaic of Enceladus reveal that the shape of this active icy ocean …

A note on the possibility of subsurface oceans on the Uranian satellites

CJ Bierson, F Nimmo - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
We use an existing thermal evolution model to assess the plausibility of subsurface oceans
on the moons of Uranus. We adopt a conservative approach neglecting tidal heating and …

Large-scale cryovolcanic resurfacing on Pluto

KN Singer, OL White, B Schmitt, EL Rader… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The New Horizons spacecraft returned images and compositional data showing
that terrains on Pluto span a variety of ages, ranging from relatively ancient, heavily cratered …

Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988–2016

E Meza, B Sicardy, M Assafin, JL Ortiz… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. The tenuous nitrogen (N 2) atmosphere on Pluto undergoes strong seasonal effects
due to high obliquity and orbital eccentricity, and has recently (July 2015) been observed by …

Bolometric hemispherical albedo map of Pluto from New Horizons observations

JD Hofgartner, BJ Buratti, RA Beyer… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The New Horizons encounter with the Pluto system revealed Pluto to have an
extremely spatially variable surface with expansive dark, bright, and intermediate terrains …