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 …

Ground-based telescopes and space exploration have provided outstanding observations of
the complexity of icy planetary surfaces. This work presents our review of the varying nature …

Much of our knowledge of planetary surface composition is derived from remote sensing
over the ultraviolet through infrared wavelength ranges. Telescopic observations and, in the …

Transmission spectra were measured between 1.0 and 2.7 μm for monocrystalline samples
of hexagonal water ice at temperatures between 20 and 270 K. Samples were crystallized …

The Rosetta spacecraft has investigated comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from large
heliocentric distances to its perihelion passage and beyond. We trace the seasonal and …

Abstract On July 14th 2015, NASA's New Horizons mission gave us an unprecedented
detailed view of the Pluto system. The complex compositional diversity of Pluto's encounter …

We present the discovery and initial physical and dynamical characterization of the object
2003 UB313. The object is sufficiently bright that for all reasonable values of the albedo it is …

This paper presents the analysis of near-infrared observations of the icy surface of Triton,
recorded on 1995 September 7, with the cooled grating spectrometer CGS4 at the United …

The OMEGA visible/near‐infrared imaging spectrometer on board Mars Express has
observed the southern seasonal cap in late 2004 and 2005 and then in the summer of 2006 …

Abstract From Earth based observations Pluto is known to be the host of N2, CH4 and CO
ices and also a dark red material. Very limited spatial distribution information is available …