Harold J. Reitsema

TL;DR: The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) as discussed by the authors is one of the three science instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope and is optimized to take full advantage of the very low background in the space environment.

TL;DR: The Kepler mission as mentioned in this paper was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method, and the results from just 43 days of data along with ground-based follow-up observations have identified five new transiting planets with measurements of their masses, radii, and orbital periods.

TL;DR: The New Horizons encounter revealed that Pluto displays a surprisingly wide variety of geological landforms, including those resulting from glaciological and surface-atmosphere interactions as well as impact, tectonic, possible cryovolcanic, and mass-wasting processes.

TL;DR: The Giotto spacecraft's Halley multicolor camera imaging results have furnished flyby images that are centered on the brightest part of the inner coma; these show the silouette of a large, solid and irregularly shaped cometary nucleus and jetlike dust activity as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has revealed a complex geology of Pluto and Charon, including evidence of tectonics, glacial flow, and possible cryovolcanoes, and these findings massively increase the understanding of the bodies in the outer solar system.