Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve

EMR Kempton, M Zhang, JL Bean, ME Steinrueck… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System,
yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars. Population statistics …

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 …

Aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres

P Gao, HR Wakeford, SE Moran, V Parmentier - 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres have shown that aerosols, like in the solar system,
are common across a variety of temperatures and planet types. The formation and …

Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon

WM Grundy, RP Binzel, BJ Buratti, JC Cook… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION The Kuiper Belt hosts a swarm of distant, icy objects ranging in size from
small, primordial planetesimals to much larger, highly evolved objects, representing a whole …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Pluto's ocean is capped and insulated by gas hydrates

S Kamata, F Nimmo, Y Sekine, K Kuramoto… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract Many icy Solar System bodies possess subsurface oceans. On Pluto, Sputnik
Planitia's location near the equator suggests the presence of a subsurface ocean and a …

Role of acetylene in the chemical evolution of carbon complexity

EO Pentsak, MS Murga… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Acetylene, among the multitude of organic molecules discovered in space, plays a distinct
role in the genesis of organic matter. Characterized by its unique balance of stability and …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Dunes on pluto

MW Telfer, EJR Parteli, J Radebaugh, RA Beyer… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
The surface of Pluto is more geologically diverse and dynamic than had been expected, but
the role of its tenuous atmosphere in sha** the landscape remains unclear. We describe …