Detection of ammonia on Pluto’s surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Detection of ammonia on Pluto’s surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism

Published:2019-05-03 Issue:5 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Dalle Ore C. M.¹²,Cruikshank D. P.²^ORCID,Protopapa S.³^ORCID,Scipioni F.¹²^ORCID,McKinnon W. B.⁴^ORCID,Cook J. C.⁵,Grundy W. M.⁶^ORCID,Schmitt B.⁷^ORCID,Stern S. A.³^ORCID,Moore J. M.²^ORCID,Verbiscer A.⁸^ORCID,Parker A. H.³,Singer K. N.³^ORCID,Umurhan O. M.¹²,Weaver H. A.⁹^ORCID,Olkin C. B.³^ORCID,Young L. A.³^ORCID,Ennico K.²^ORCID,

Affiliation:

1. SETI Institute, Mountain View CA, USA.

2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.

3. Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.

4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA.

5. Pinhead Institute, Telluride CO, USA.

6. Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff AZ, USA.

7. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France.

8. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD, USA.

9. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Abstract

Ammonia in water ice found in a tectonic region on Pluto is a clue to the geological and geochemical history of the dwarf planet.