Pilar Montañés-Rodríguez

TL;DR: The observation of a multi-chord stellar occultation by Eris on 6 November 2010 is reported, consistent with a spherical shape for Eris, and it is anticipated that this atmosphere may periodically sublimate as Eris approaches its perihelion, at 37.8 astronomical units from the Sun.

TL;DR: The optical and near-infrared transmission spectrum of the Earth, obtained during a lunar eclipse, finds some biologically relevant atmospheric features that are weak in the reflection spectrum are much stronger in the transmission spectrum, and indeed stronger than predicted by modelling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used reflectance models and real cloud data from satellite observations to estimate Earth's rotation period, and they showed that the light scattered by the Earth to a hypothetical distant observer as a function of time contains sufficient information to accurately measure Earth rotation period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found a strong correlation between the evolution of the spectral intensity of the red edge and changes in the cloud-free vegetated area over the course of observations and concluded that vegetation detection in Earth-like planets will require a considerable level of instrumental precision and will be a difficult task, but not as difficult as the normally weak earthshine signal might seem to suggest.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors correlate an overlapping period of earthshine measurements of Earth's reflectance (from 1999 through mid-2001) with satellite observations of global cloud properties to construct from the latter a proxy measure for Earth's global shortwave reflectance.