Haze heats Pluto’s atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature

Xi Zhang (), Darrell F. Strobel and Hiroshi Imanaka
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Xi Zhang: University of California Santa Cruz
Darrell F. Strobel: Johns Hopkins University
Hiroshi Imanaka: SETI Institute, 189 North Bernardo Avenue

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7680, 352-355

Abstract: Modelling results find that the temperature of Pluto’s atmosphere is regulated by haze particles rather than gas molecules, suggesting that Pluto should be brighter than previously thought at mid-infrared wavelengths.

Date: 2017
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