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Peter C. Thomas
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 387
Citations - 27137
Peter C. Thomas is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Impact crater & Asteroid. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 378 publications receiving 24938 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter C. Thomas include University of Florida.
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Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Michael C. Malin,James F. Bell,Bruce A. Cantor,Michael Caplinger,Wendy M. Calvin,R. Todd Clancy,Kenneth S. Edgett,Lawrence Edwards,Robert M. Haberle,P. B. James,Steven W. Lee,Michael A. Ravine,Peter C. Thomas,Michael J. Wolff +13 more
TL;DR: The Context Camera (CTX) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a Facility Instrument (i.e., government-furnished equipment operated by a science team not responsible for design and fabrication) designed, built, and operated by Malin Space Science Systems and the MRO Mars Color Imager team (MARCI) as mentioned in this paper.
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Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus
Carolyn C. Porco,Paul Helfenstein,Peter C. Thomas,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Jack Wisdom,Robert West,Gerhard Neukum,Tilmann Denk,Roland Wagner,Thomas Roatsch,Susan W. Kieffer,Elizabeth P. Turtle,Alfred S. McEwen,Torrence V. Johnson,Julie A. Rathbun,J. Veverka,Daren Wilson,Jason Perry,Joseph N. Spitale,André Brahic,Joseph A. Burns,Anthony D. DelGenio,Luke Dones,Carl D. Murray,Steven W. Squyres +24 more
TL;DR: Cassini has identified a geologically active province at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus in images acquired by the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS), this region is circumscribed by a chain of folded ridges and troughs at ∼55°S latitude as mentioned in this paper.
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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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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Instrument Overview
Mark S. Robinson,S. Brylow,M. Tschimmel,David C. Humm,Samuel J. Lawrence,Peter C. Thomas,Brett W. Denevi,E. Bowman-Cisneros,J. Zerr,M. A. Ravine,Michael Caplinger,F. T. Ghaemi,J. A. Schaffner,Michael C. Malin,Prasun Mahanti,Arlin E. Bartels,J. Anderson,T. Tran,Eric M. Eliason,Alfred S. McEwen,Elizabeth P. Turtle,Bradley L. Jolliff,Harald Hiesinger +22 more
TL;DR: The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) are on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) as discussed by the authors, and the primary mission of LRO is to obtain measurements of the Moon that will enable future lunar human exploration.
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Voyager 2 at neptune: imaging science results.
Bradford A. Smith,L. A. Soderblom,Don Banfield,C. D. Barnet,Alexander T. Basilevsky,Reta Beebe,K. Bollinger,Joseph M. Boyce,André Brahic,G. A. Briggs,Robert H. Brown,Christopher F. Chyba,Stewart A. Collins,Tim R. Colvin,A. F. Cook,David Crisp,Steven K. Croft,Dale P. Cruikshank,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,G. E. Danielson,Merton E. Davies,E. De Jong,Luke Dones,D. Godfrey,Jay D. Goguen,I. Grenier,V. R. Haemmerle,Heidi B. Hammel,Candice Hansen,c. P. Helfenstein,Chris Howell,G. E. Hunt,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Torrence V. Johnson,Jeffrey S. Kargel,R. L. Kirk,D. I. Kuehn,Sanjay S. Limaye,Harold Masursky,Alfred S. McEwen,David Morrison,Tobias Owen,William M. Owen,James B. Pollack,Carolyn C. Porco,K. Rages,P. Rogers,D. Rudy,C. Sagan,Joel M. Schwartz,Eugene M. Shoemaker,Mark R. Showalter,Bruno Sicardy,Damon P. Simonelli,John R. Spencer,Lawrence A. Sromovsky,Carol R. Stoker,Robert G. Strom,Verner E. Suomi,S. P. Synott,Richard J. Terrile,Peter C. Thomas,W. R. Thompson,A. Verbiscer,J. Veverka +64 more
TL;DR: New Voyager 2 images of Neptune reveal a windy planet characterized by bright clouds of methane ice suspended in an exceptionally clear atmosphere above a lower deck of hydrogen sulfide or ammonia ices, dominated by a large anticyclonic storm system that has been named the Great Dark Spot.