Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:nh_derived:plutosystem_atmospherics::1.0
NAME New Horizons Encounter with the Pluto System: Atmospheric Opacities and Composition, Temperature, Pressure, and Haze Profiles from the LORRI, Alice, and REX Instruments
TYPE Data
DESCRIPTION This data set contains derived atmospheric data from the New Horizons mission during the Pluto Encounter mission phase, based on data from the Alice UV imaging spectrograph instrument, the Radio EXperiment instrument, and the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager instrument. The data set includes a solar spectrum of Pluto and Charon; atmospheric composition on Pluto for N2, CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, and haze, and the haze brightness profiles; Pluto lower atmospheric temperature and pressure profiles; stellar occultation and appulse data of Pluto; and temperatures of the diametric and winter pole thermscans of Pluto.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA New Horizons Encounter, Pluto system, LORRI, Alice, REX: Atmospheric Opacities and Composition, Temperature, Pressure, and Haze Profiles Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.26007/z5wm-yt67
AUTHORS Stern, S. Alan
EDITORS Egan, Anthony; Mukherjee, Joey; Finley, Tiffany; Salmon, Julien; Enke, Brian; Steffl, Andrew; Hinson, David; Kammer, Josh; Cheng, Andrew; Taylor, Howard; Linscott, Ivan; Young, Leslie A.; Redfern, Jillian; Singer, Kelsi; Keeney, Brian; Raugh, Anne C.
PUBLICATION YEAR 2025
DESCRIPTION This data set contains derived atmospheric data from the New Horizons mission during the Pluto Encounter mission phase, based on data from the Alice UV imaging spectrograph instrument, the Radio EXperiment instrument, and the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager instrument. The data set includes a solar spectrum of Pluto and Charon; atmospheric composition on Pluto for N2, CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, and haze, and the haze brightness profiles; Pluto lower atmospheric temperature and pressure profiles; stellar occultation and appulse data of Pluto; and temperatures of the diametric and winter pole thermscans of Pluto.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 2015-07-14T08:16:24.706Z
STOP DATE TIME 2015-07-15T03:28:10.856Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE Science
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Derived
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME
INVESTIGATION New Horizons
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT New Horizons
Alice Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager
Radio Science Experiment
TARGET (134340) Pluto
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