Nature Communications (Mar 2022)
Large-scale cryovolcanic resurfacing on Pluto
- Kelsi N. Singer,
- Oliver L. White,
- Bernard Schmitt,
- Erika L. Rader,
- Silvia Protopapa,
- William M. Grundy,
- Dale P. Cruikshank,
- Tanguy Bertrand,
- Paul M. Schenk,
- William B. McKinnon,
- S. Alan Stern,
- Rajani D. Dhingra,
- Kirby D. Runyon,
- Ross A. Beyer,
- Veronica J. Bray,
- Cristina Dalle Ore,
- John R. Spencer,
- Jeffrey M. Moore,
- Francis Nimmo,
- James T. Keane,
- Leslie A. Young,
- Catherine B. Olkin,
- Tod R. Lauer,
- Harold A. Weaver,
- Kimberly Ennico-Smith
Affiliations
- Kelsi N. Singer
- Southwest Research Institute
- Oliver L. White
- Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute
- Bernard Schmitt
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG
- Erika L. Rader
- University of Idaho
- Silvia Protopapa
- Southwest Research Institute
- William M. Grundy
- Lowell Observatory
- Dale P. Cruikshank
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Space Science Division
- Tanguy Bertrand
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Space Science Division
- Paul M. Schenk
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
- William B. McKinnon
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University
- S. Alan Stern
- Southwest Research Institute
- Rajani D. Dhingra
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Kirby D. Runyon
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Ross A. Beyer
- Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute
- Veronica J. Bray
- University of Arizona
- Cristina Dalle Ore
- Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute
- John R. Spencer
- Southwest Research Institute
- Jeffrey M. Moore
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Space Science Division
- Francis Nimmo
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California
- James T. Keane
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Leslie A. Young
- Southwest Research Institute
- Catherine B. Olkin
- Southwest Research Institute
- Tod R. Lauer
- National Science Foundation National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
- Harold A. Weaver
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Kimberly Ennico-Smith
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Space Science Division
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29056-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Giant icy volcanos (cryovolcanos) on Pluto are unique in the imaged solar system and provide evidence for unexpected, active geology late in Pluto’s history.
