Browsing MIT Open Access Articles by Author "Earle, Alissa Michelle"

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    • The Global Color of Pluto from New Horizons 

      Olkin, Catherine B.; Spencer, John R.; Grundy, William M.; Parker, Alex H.; Beyer, Ross A.; e.a. (American Astronomical Society, 2017-11)
      The New Horizons flyby provided the first high-resolution color maps of Pluto. We present here, for the first time, an analysis of the color of the entire sunlit surface of Pluto and the first quantitative analysis of color ...

    • Inflight radiometric calibration of New Horizons’ Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) 

      Binzel, Richard P; Earle, Alissa Michelle (Elsevier BV, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier Inc. We discuss two semi-independent calibration techniques used to determine the inflight radiometric calibration for the New Horizons’ Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The first calibration ...

    • Modeling glacial flow on and onto Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia 

      Umurhan, O.M.; Howard, A.D.; Moore, J.M.; Earle, Alissa Michelle; White, O.L.; e.a. (Elsevier BV, 2017-05)
      Observations of Pluto's surface made by the New Horizons spacecraft indicate present-day N2 ice glaciation in and around the basin informally known as Sputnik Planitia. Motivated by these observations, we have developed ...