Disk-resolved Photometric Properties of Pluto and the Coloring Materials across its Surface

• Published in: The Astronomical Journal
• Main Authors: Protopapa, Silvia, Olkin, Cathy B., Grundy, Will M., Li, Jian-Yang, Verbiscer, Anne, Cruikshank, Dale P., Gautier, Thomas, Quirico, Eric, Cook, Jason C., Reuter, Dennis, Howett, Carly J. A., Stern, Alan, Beyer, Ross A., Porter, Simon, Young, Leslie A., Weaver, Hal A., Ennico, Kim, Dalle Ore, Cristina M., Scipioni, Francesca, Singer, Kelsi
• Other Authors: Southwest Research Institute Boulder (SwRI), Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Planetary Science Institute Tucson (PSI), University of Virginia, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Pinhead Institute, Smithsonian Institution, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD (APL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; North Pole; Sputnik
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-02468367; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5e82

International audience A multiwavelength regionally dependent photometric analysis of Pluto's anti-Charon-facing hemisphere using images collected by New Horizons' Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) reveals large variations in the absolute value and spectral slope of the single-sc...