Research ArticlePLANETARY SCIENCE
Detection of ammonia on Pluto’s surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism
- C. M. Dalle Ore1,2,*,
- View ORCID ProfileD. P. Cruikshank2,*,
- View ORCID ProfileS. Protopapa3,
- View ORCID ProfileF. Scipioni1,2,
- View ORCID ProfileW. B. McKinnon4,
- J. C. Cook5,
- View ORCID ProfileW. M. Grundy6,
- View ORCID ProfileB. Schmitt7,
- View ORCID ProfileS. A. Stern3,
- View ORCID ProfileJ. M. Moore2,
- View ORCID ProfileA. Verbiscer8,
- A. H. Parker3,
- View ORCID ProfileK. N. Singer3,
- O. M. Umurhan1,2,
- View ORCID ProfileH. A. Weaver9,
- View ORCID ProfileC. B. Olkin3,
- View ORCID ProfileL. A. Young3,
- View ORCID ProfileK. Ennico2,
- New Horizons Surface Composition Science Theme Team†
- 1SETI Institute, Mountain View CA, USA.
- 2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
- 3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
- 4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- 5Pinhead Institute, Telluride CO, USA.
- 6Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff AZ, USA.
- 7Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
- 8Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD, USA.
- 9University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: cristina.m.dalleore{at}nasa.gov (C.M.D.O.); dale.p.cruikshank{at}nasa.gov (D.P.C.)
↵† The list of members of the New Horizons Surface Composition Science Theme Team can be found in the Supplementary Materials.
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Science Advances 29 May 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 5, eaav5731
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav5731
Vol. 5, no. 5, eaav5731
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav5731
C. M. Dalle Ore
1SETI Institute, Mountain View CA, USA.
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
D. P. Cruikshank
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
S. Protopapa
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
F. Scipioni
1SETI Institute, Mountain View CA, USA.
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
W. B. McKinnon
4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
J. C. Cook
5Pinhead Institute, Telluride CO, USA.
W. M. Grundy
6Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff AZ, USA.
B. Schmitt
7Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
S. A. Stern
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
J. M. Moore
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
A. Verbiscer
8Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD, USA.
A. H. Parker
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
K. N. Singer
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
O. M. Umurhan
1SETI Institute, Mountain View CA, USA.
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
H. A. Weaver
9University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
C. B. Olkin
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
L. A. Young
3Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, USA.
K. Ennico
2NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, USA.
