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M. J. S. Belton
Researcher at Kitt Peak National Observatory
Publications - 33
Citations - 6025
M. J. S. Belton is an academic researcher from Kitt Peak National Observatory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comet & Impact crater. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 33 publications receiving 5668 citations. Previous affiliations of M. J. S. Belton include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Extreme ultraviolet observations from Voyager 1 encounter with Jupiter
A. L. Broadfoot,M. J. S. Belton,P. Z. Takacs,Bill R. Sandel,Donald E. Shemansky,Jay B. Holberg,Joseph M. Ajello,Sushil K. Atreya,Thomas M. Donahue,H. W. Moos,Jean-Loup Bertaux,J. E. Blamont,Darrell F. Strobel,John C. McConnell,Alexander Dalgarno,Richard Goody,Michael B. McElroy +16 more
TL;DR: The observed resonance scattering of solar hydrogen Lyman α by the atmosphere of Jupiter and the solar occultation experiment suggest a hot thermosphere (≥ 1000 K) wvith a large atomic hydrogen abundance.
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Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1
Michael F. A'Hearn,M. J. S. Belton,W. A. Delamere,Jochen Kissel,Kenneth P. Klaasen,Lucy A. McFadden,Karen J. Meech,H. J. Melosh,Peter H. Schultz,Jessica M. Sunshine,Peter C. Thomas,J. Veverka,Donald K. Yeomans,M. W. Baca,I. Busko,C. J. Crockett,Steven M. Collins,Mark Desnoyer,C. A. Eberhardy,Carolyn M. Ernst,Tony L. Farnham,Lori M. Feaga,Olivier Groussin,Donald Hampton,Sergei I. Ipatov,Jian-Yang Li,Don J. Lindler,Carey M. Lisse,Carey M. Lisse,N. Mastrodemos,William M. Owen,James E. Richardson,James E. Richardson,Dennis D. Wellnitz,R. L. White +34 more
TL;DR: A large increase in organic material occurred during and after the event, with smaller changes in carbon dioxide relative to water, and a thermal map indicates a surface in equilibrium with sunlight.
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Evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa
Michael H. Carr,M. J. S. Belton,Clark R. Chapman,Merton E. Davies,Paul Geissler,Richard Greenberg,Alfred S. McEwen,Bruce R. Tufts,Ronald Greeley,Robert Sullivan,James W. Head,Robert T. Pappalardo,Kenneth P. Klaasen,Torrence V. Johnson,James M. Kaufman,David Senske,Jeffrey M. Moore,Gerhard Neukum,Gerald Schubert,Joseph A. Burns,Peter C. Thomas,Joseph Veverka +21 more
TL;DR: High-resolution Galileo spacecraft images of Europa are presented, in which evidence for mobile ‘icebergs’ is found and the detailed morphology of the terrain strongly supports the presence of liquid water at shallow depths below the surface, either today or at some time in the past.
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EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2
Michael F. A'Hearn,M. J. S. Belton,W. Alan Delamere,Lori M. Feaga,Donald Hampton,Jochen Kissel,Kenneth P. Klaasen,Lucy A. McFadden,Lucy A. McFadden,Karen J. Meech,H. Jay Melosh,H. Jay Melosh,Peter H. Schultz,Jessica M. Sunshine,Peter C. Thomas,Joseph Veverka,Dennis D. Wellnitz,Donald K. Yeomans,Sebastien Besse,Dennis Bodewits,Timothy J. Bowling,Brian Carcich,Steven M. Collins,Tony L. Farnham,Olivier Groussin,Brendan Hermalyn,Michael S. P. Kelley,Jian-Yang Li,Don J. Lindler,Carey M. Lisse,S. McLaughlin,Frederic Merlin,Frederic Merlin,Silvia Protopapa,James E. Richardson,J. L. Williams +35 more
TL;DR: In situ observations show that comet Hartley 2 is an unusually hyperactive comet, and this nucleus is outgassing primarily because of CO2, which drags chunks of ice out of the nucleus.
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Does Europa have a subsurface ocean? Evaluation of the geological evidence
Robert T. Pappalardo,M. J. S. Belton,H. Herbert Breneman,Michael H. Carr,Clark R. Chapman,Geoffrey C. Collins,Tilmann Denk,Sarah A. Fagents,Paul Geissler,Bernd Giese,Ronald Greeley,Richard Greenberg,James W. Head,Paul Helfenstein,Gregory V. Hoppa,S. D. Kadel,Kenneth P. Klaasen,James E. Klemaszewski,K. Magee,K. Magee,Alfred S. McEwen,Jeffrey M. Moore,William B. Moore,Gerhard Neukum,Cynthia B. Phillips,Louise M. Prockter,Gerald Schubert,David A. Senske,David A. Senske,R. J. Sullivan,B. R. Tufts,Elizabeth P. Turtle,Robert Wagner,K. K. Williams +33 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the geological evidence regarding an extant subsurface ocean, concentrating on Galileo imaging data and assess nine pertinent lines of geological evidence: impact morphologies, lenticulae, cryovolcanic features, pull-apart bands, chaos, ridges, surface frosts, topography, and global tectonics.