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William T. K. Johnson
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 45
Citations - 2755
William T. K. Johnson is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radar & Titan (rocket family). The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 45 publications receiving 2513 citations.
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The lakes of Titan
Ellen R. Stofan,Charles Elachi,Jonathan I. Lunine,R. D. Lorenz,Bryan Stiles,Karl L. Mitchell,Steven J. Ostro,Laurence A. Soderblom,Charles A. Wood,Howard A. Zebker,S. D. Wall,Michael Janssen,Randolph L. Kirk,Rosaly M. C. Lopes,Flora Paganelli,Jani Radebaugh,Lauren Wye,Y. Anderson,Matthew A. Allison,R. Boehmer,Philip S. Callahan,Pierre Encrenaz,E. Flamini,G. Francescetti,Yonggyu Gim,G. Hamilton,S. Hensley,William T. K. Johnson,K. Kelleher,Duane O. Muhleman,P. Paillou,Giovanni Picardi,Francesco Posa,L. Roth,Roberto Seu,S. Shaffer,S. Vetrella,Robert West +37 more
TL;DR: These northern-hemisphere lakes constitute the strongest evidence yet that a condensable-liquid hydrological cycle is active in Titan’s surface and atmosphere, in which the lakes are filled through rainfall and/or intersection with the subsurface ‘liquid methane’ table.
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Radar Soundings of the Subsurface of Mars
G. Picardi,Jeffrey J. Plaut,Daniela Biccari,O. Bombaci,Diego Calabrese,Marco Cartacci,Andrea Cicchetti,Stephen M. Clifford,Peter Edenhofer,William M. Farrell,Costanzo Federico,Alessandro Frigeri,Donald A. Gurnett,Tor Hagfors,Essam Heggy,Alain Herique,R. L. Huff,Anton B. Ivanov,William T. K. Johnson,Rolando L. Jordan,D. L. Kirchner,Wlodek Kofman,Carlton J. Leuschen,Erling Nielsen,Roberto Orosei,Elena Pettinelli,Roger J. Phillips,Dirk Plettemeier,Ali Safaeinili,Roberto Seu,Ellen R. Stofan,Giuliano Vannaroni,Thomas R. Watters,E. Zampolini +33 more
TL;DR: Data from the northern lowlands of Chryse Planitia have revealed a shallowly buried quasi-circular structure about 250 kilometers in diameter that is interpreted to be an impact basin and a planar reflector associated with the basin structure may indicate the presence of a low-loss deposit that is more than 1 kilometer thick.
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Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper
Rosaly M. C. Lopes,Karl L. Mitchell,Ellen R. Stofan,Jonathan I. Lunine,Jonathan I. Lunine,R. D. Lorenz,Flora Paganelli,Randolph L. Kirk,Charles A. Wood,Stephen D. Wall,L. E. Robshaw,Andrew Dominic Fortes,Catherine D. Neish,Jani Radebaugh,E. Reffet,Steven J. Ostro,Charles Elachi,Michael Allison,Y. Anderson,R. Boehmer,G. Boubin,Philip S. Callahan,Pierre Encrenaz,Enrico Flamini,G. Francescetti,Yonggyu Gim,G. Hamilton,Scott Hensley,Michael Janssen,William T. K. Johnson,K. Kelleher,Duane O. Muhleman,Gian Gabriele Ori,Roberto Orosei,Giovanni Picardi,Francesco Posa,L. Roth,Roberto Seu,S. Shaffer,Laurence A. Soderblom,Bryan Stiles,S. Vetrella,Richard West,Lauren Wye,Howard A. Zebker +44 more
TL;DR: The Cassini Titan Radar Mapper obtained Synthetic Aperture Radar images of Titan's surface during four fly-bys during the mission's first year as mentioned in this paper, showing evidence of major planetary geologic processes, including cryovolcanism.
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Radar: The Cassini Titan Radar Mapper
Charles Elachi,Michael Allison,L. Borgarelli,Pierre Encrenaz,Eastwood Im,M. A. Janssen,William T. K. Johnson,Randolph L. Kirk,Ralph D. Lorenz,Jonathan I. Lunine,Duane O. Muhleman,Steven J. Ostro,Giovanni Picardi,Francesco Posa,Chris Rapley,L.E. Roth,Roberto Seu,Laurence A. Soderblom,S. Vetrella,S. D. Wall,Charles A. Wood,Howard A. Zebker +21 more
TL;DR: The Cassini-RADAR is a multimode 13.8 GHz multiple-beam sensor that can operate as a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imager, altimeter, scatterometer, and radiometer as discussed by the authors.
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The "Myth" of the minimum SAR antenna area constraint
Anthony Freeman,William T. K. Johnson,B.L. Huneycutt,R.L. Jordan,Scott Hensley,Paul Siqueira,J. Curlander +6 more
TL;DR: SAR antennas with area smaller than the constraint allows are shown to be possible, have been used on spaceborne SAR missions in the past, and should permit further, lower-cost SAR missionsIn the future.