A blog collecting data that are not (yet) included in our books on Pluto & Charon, Titan, Ceres and other lesser worlds of the outer solar system.
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This blog collects supplemental data on lesser worlds of the solar system (like Pluto and Titan) that have not (yet) been included in our books. You may contribute to our blog with brief articles that we will on your request also translate for our monolingual audience. The only precondition: Your content must in some way relate to dwarf planets or large moons of the solar system.
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Dienstag, 13. Juni 2017
Celestial Police looking for clouds in Pluto's atmosphere
Evidence for Possible Clouds in Pluto's Present Day Atmosphere describes "a search for discrete could features in Pluto's atmosphere using New Horizons data obtained on 14-15 July 2015, during the Pluto flyby closest approach. We report that Pluto's present day atmosphere is at least largely (>99% by surface area) free of discrete clouds. We also report a handful of features that may plausibly be clouds, all of which were detected obliquely and at high phase observing geometry. No cloud candidates were identified away from the terminators or in low phase (backscattering geometry) images."
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