Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)

Autor: Rodriguez, Sébastien, Vinatier, Sandrine, Cordier, Daniel, Tobie, Gabriel, Achterberg, Richard K., Anderson, Carrie M., Badman, Sarah V., Barnes, Jason W., Barth, Erika L., Bézard, Bruno, Carrasco, Nathalie, Charnay, Benjamin, Clark, Roger N., Coll, Patrice, Cornet, Thomas, Coustenis, Athena, Couturier-Tamburelli, Isabelle, Dobrijevic, Michel, Flasar, F. Michael, de Kok, Remco, Freissinet, Caroline, Galand, Marina, Gautier, Thomas, Geppert, Wolf D., Griffith, Caitlin A., Gudipati, Murthy S., Hadid, Lina Z., Hayes, Alexander G., Hendrix, Amanda R., Jauman, Ralf, Jennings, Donald E., Jolly, Antoine, Kalousova, Klara, Koskinen, Tommi T., Lavvas, Panayotis, Lebonnois, Sébastien, Lebreton, Jean-Pierre, Gall, Alice Le, Lellouch, Emmanuel, Mouélic, Stéphane Le, Lopes, Rosaly M. C., Lora, Juan M., Lorenz, Ralph D., Lucas, Antoine, MacKenzie, Shannon, Malaska, Michael J., Mandt, Kathleen, Mastrogiuseppe, Marco, Newman, Claire E., Nixon, Conor A., Radebaugh, Jani, Rafkin, Scot C., Rannou, Pascal, Sciamma-O-Brien, Ella M., Soderblom, Jason M., Solomonidou, Anezina, Sotin, Christophe, Stephan, Katrin, Strobel, Darrell, Szopa, Cyril, Teanby, Nicholas A., Turtle, Elizabeth P., Vuitton, Véronique, West, Robert A.

In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest moon Titan. Titan, a "world with two oceans", is an organic-rich body w

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10466

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

Autor: Stern, S. A., Weaver, H. A., Spencer, J. R., Olkin, C. B., Gladstone, G. R., Grundy, W. M., Moore, J. M., Cruikshank, D. P., Elliott, H. A., McKinnon, W. B., Parker, J. Wm., Verbiscer, A. J., Young, L. A., Aguilar, D. A., Albers, J. M., Andert, T., Andrews, J. P., Bagenal, F., Banks, M. E., Bauer, B. A., Bauman, J. A., Bechtold, K. E., Beddingfield, C. B., Behrooz, N., Beisser, K. B., Benecchi, S. D., Bernardoni, E., Beyer, R. A., Bhaskaran, S., Bierson, C. J., Binzel, R. P., Birath, E. M., Bird, M. K., Boone, D. R., Bowman, A. F., Bray, V. J., Britt, D. T., Brown, L. E., Buckley, M. R., Buie, M. W., Buratti, B. J., Burke, L. M., Bushman, S. S., Carcich, B., Chaikin, A. L., Chavez, C. L., Cheng, A. F., Colwell, E. J., Conard, S. J., Conner, M. P., Conrad, C. A., Cook, J. C., Cooper, S. B., Custodio, O. S., Ore, C. M. Dalle, Deboy, C. C., Dharmavaram, P., Dhingra, R. D., Dunn, G. F., Earle, A. M., Egan, A. F., Eisig, J., El-Maarry, M. R., Engelbrecht, C., Enke, B. L., Ercol, C. J., Fattig, E. D., Ferrell, C. L., Finley, T. J., Firer, J., Fischetti, J., Folkner, W. M., Fosbury, M. N., Fountain, G. H., Freeze, J. M., Gabasova, L., Glaze, L. S., Green, J. L., Griffith, G. A., Guo, Y., Hahn, M., Hals, D. W., Hamilton, D. P., Hamilton, S. A., Hanley, J. J., Harch, A., Harmon, K. A., Hart, H. M., Hayes, J., Hersman, C. B., Hill, M. E., Hill, T. A., Hofgartner, J. D., Holdridge, M. E., Horányi, M., Hosadurga, A., Howard, A. D., Howett, C. J. A., Jaskulek, S. E., Jennings, D. E., Jensen, J. R., Jones, M. R., Kang, H. K., Katz, D. J., Kaufmann, D. E., Kavelaars, J. J., Keane, J. T., Keleher, G. P., Kinczyk, M., Kochte, M. C., Kollmann, P., Krimigis, S. M., Kruizinga, G. L., Kusnierkiewicz, D. Y., Lahr, M. S., Lauer, T. R., Lawrence, G. B., Lee, J. E., Lessac-Chenen, E. J., Linscott, I. R., Lisse, C. M., Lunsford, A. W., Mages, D. M., Mallder, V. A., Martin, N. P., May, B. H., McComas, D. J., McNutt, R. L., Mehoke, Jr. D. S., Mehoke, T. S., Nelson, D. S., Nguyen, H. D., Núñez, J. I., Ocampo, A. C., Owen, W. M., Oxton, G. K., Parker, A. H., Pätzold, M., Pelgrift, J. Y., Pelletier, F. J., Pineau, J. P., Piquette, M. R., Porter, S. B., Protopapa, S., Quirico, E., Redfern, J. A., Regiec, A. L., Reitsema, H. J., Reuter, D. C., Richardson, D. C., Riedel, J. E., Ritterbush, M. A., Robbins, S. J., Rodgers, D. J., Rogers, G. D., Rose, D. M., Rosendall, P. E., Runyon, K. D., Ryschkewitsch, M. G., Saina, M. M., Salinas, M. J., Schenk, P. M., Scherrer, J. R., Schlei, W. R., Schmitt, B., Schultz, D. J., Schurr, D. C., Scipioni, F., Sepan, R. L., Shelton, R. G., Showalter, M. R., Simon, M., Singer, K. N., Stahlheber, E. W., Stanbridge, D. R., Stansberry, J. A., Steffl, A. J., Strobel, D. F., Stothoff, M. M., Stryk, T., Stuart, J. R., Summers, M. E., Tapley, M. B., Taylor, A., Taylor, H. W., Tedford, R. M., Throop, H. B., Turner, L. S., Umurhan, O. M., Van Eck, J., Velez, D., Versteeg, M. H., Vincent, M. A., Webbert, R. W., Weidner, S. E., Weigle II, G. E., Wendel, J. R., White, O. L., Whittenburg, K. E., Williams, B. G., Williams, K. E., Williams, S. P., Winters, H. L., Zangari, A. M., Zurbuchen, T. H.

Publikováno v: Science 364, eaaw9771 (2019)

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 class of objects that have never been heated by the Sun and are therefore

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01017

Color, Composition, and Thermal Environment of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

Autor: Grundy, W. M., Bird, M. K., Britt, D. T., Cook, J. C., Cruikshank, D. P., Howett, C. J. A., Krijt, S., Linscott, I. R., Olkin, C. B., Parker, A. H., Protopapa, S., Ruaud, M., Umurhan, O. M., Young, L. A., Ore, C. M. Dalle, Kavelaars, J. J., Keane, J. T., Pendleton, Y. J., Porter, S. B., Scipioni, F., Spencer, J. R., Stern, S. A., Verbiscer, A. J., Weaver, H. A., Binzel, R. P., Buie, M. W., Buratti, B. J., Cheng, A., Earle, A. M., Elliott, H. A., Gabasova, L., Gladstone, G. R., Hill, M. E., Horanyi, M., Jennings, D. E., Lunsford, A. W., McComas, D. J., McKinnon, W. B., McNutt Jr., R. L., Moore, J. M., Parker, J. W., Quirico, E., Reuter, D. C., Schenk, P. M., Schmitt, B., Showalter, M. R., Singer, K. N., Weigle II, G. E., Zangari, A. M.

The outer Solar System object (486958) Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU$_{69}$) has been largely undisturbed since its formation. We study its surface composition using data collected by the New Horizons spacecraft. Methanol ice is present a

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06720

Ethane in Titan's Stratosphere from Cassini CIRS Far- and Mid-Infrared Spectra

Autor: Lombardo, Nicholas A, Nixon, Conor A, Sylvestre, Melody, Jennings, Donald E, Teanby, Nicholas, Irwin, Patrick G J, Flasar, F Michael

Publikováno v: AJ 157 160 (2019)

The Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observed thermal emission in the far- and mid-infrared (from 10 cm$^{-1}$ to 1500 cm$^{-1}$), enabling spatiotemporal studies of ethane on Titan across the span of the Cassini mission from 2004 throu

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01926

Pluto's Haze as a Surface Material

Autor: Grundy, W. M., Bertrand, T., Binzel, R. P., Buie, M. W., Buratti, B. J., Cheng, A. F., Cook, J. C., Cruikshank, D. P., Devins, S. L., Ore, C. M. Dalle, Earle, A. M., Ennico, K., Forget, F., Gao, P., Gladstone1, G. R., Howett, C. J. A., Jennings, D. E., Kammer, J. A., Lauer, T. R., Linscott, I. R., Lisse, C. M., Lunsford, A. W., McKinnon, W. B., Olkin, C. B., Parker, A. H., Protopapa, S., Quirico, E., Reuter, D. C., Schmitt, B., Singer, K. N., Spencer, J. A., Stern, S. A., Strobel, D. F., Summers, M. E., Weaver, H. A., Weigle II, G. E., Wong, M. L., Young, E. F., Young, L. A., Zhang, X.

Publikováno v: Published in 2018 in Icarus 314, 232-245

Pluto's atmospheric haze settles out rapidly compared with geological timescales. It needs to be accounted for as a surface material, distinct from Pluto's icy bedrock and from the volatile ices that migrate via sublimation and condensation on season

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03728