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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has revealed the complex geology of Pluto and Charon.
Pluto's encounter hemisphere shows ongoing surface geological activity centered on a vast …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Cosmic Shoreline: The Evidence that Escape Determines which Planets Have Atmospheres,
and what this May Mean for Proxima Centauri B - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By …

The Abel transform is a mathematical operation that transforms a cylindrically symmetric
three-dimensional (3D) object into its twodimensional (2D) projection. The inverse Abel …