NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2013B-0369
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PI: Leslie Young, Southwest Research Institute, layoung@boulder.swri.edu
Address: Department of Space Studies, 1050 Walnut St, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
CoI: Steve Howell, NASA Ames Research Center
CoI: Eliot Young, Southwest Research Institute
CoI: Marc Buie, Southwest Research Institute
CoI: Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory
Title: Pluto's volatile distribution from speckle imaging
Abstract: Howell et al. (2012) separated Pluto and Charon with the speckle imager, DSSI, and measured their diameters. We propose to build on this work, to map the volatiles on Pluto, by taking more exposures, observing in four filters designed to measure Pluto's albedo, color, and CH_4 distribution, and observing multiple faces on Pluto. This will help us study Pluto's migrating frosts as Pluto leaves the sun, and as its summer pole becomes more directly illuminated. We compare results back to HST maps in 1994 and 2002/2003 and forward to New Horizons maps in 2015 and future ground-based maps in 2015 or beyond.
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