25.05.2019 - 12:15 [ Cornell University ]

Pluto‘s lower atmosphere and pressure evolution from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016

(06.03.2019)

Results: (i) Pressure has suffered a monotonic increase from 1988 to 2016, that is compared to a seasonal volatile transport model, from which tight constraints on a combination of albedo and emissivity of N2 ice are derived;