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  • 3-D tour of the Solar System 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Gwynn, David W.; Tutor, James (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1997)
    A collection of true stereo (3-D) images of the planets, their satellites, asteroids, and the Sun of our Solar System.
  • Charon tectonics 
    Beyer, Ross A.; Nimmo, Francis; McKinnon, William B.; Moore, J. (Jeff); Binzel, Richard P.; Conrad, Jack W.; Chen, Andy; Ennico, K.; Lauer, Tod R.; Olkin, Cathy B.; Robbins, Stuart; Schenk, Paul M.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; Zangari, Amanda M. (Elsevier, 2016-12-16)
    New Horizons images of Pluto's companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional ...
  • The Chronology Problem in the Outer Solar System: Constraining the "WHEN" of Major Dynamical and Geological Events 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Rivera-Valentín, Edgard G.; Robbins, Stuart; Cohen, Barbara; Dones, Luke; Singer, Kelsi N.; Nesvorný, David; Greenstreet, Sarah; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4439-1539; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4042-003X (2020)
    In this white paper, we summarize the current state of surface age determination in the OSS and make recommendations and advocate for research into the Chronology of the OSS as a high priority for NASA over the next decade.
  • Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn : July 26-29, 2016, Boulder, Colorado 
    Esposito, Larry; Howett, Carly J. A.; Bloom, Laura; Schenk, Paul M. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2016)
    Topics include (but are not limited to) geology, geophysics, geochemistry and mineralogy, active jets and their properties and origins, formation and evolution, astrobiology, and future investigations of these bodies. ...
  • Europa Deep Dive I: Ice-Shell Exchange Processes Workshop : November 1–2, 2017, Houston, Texas 
    Prockter, Louise; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0996-1348; Schenk, Paul M.; Bierhaus, Beau; Kattenhorn, S. A. (Simon A.); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-1073; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1966-307X (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2017)
    The focus of this workshop is exchange processes within Europa's ice shell, including (but not limited to) tectonism, diapirism, subduction, and impact processes, and their relation to the boundary layers above and below. ...
  • Geological Mapping of Pluto and Charon using New Horizons data 
    Moore, J. (Jeff); Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; McKinnon, William B.; Howard, Alan D.; White, Oliver L.; Umurhan, Orkan M., 1969-; Schenk, Paul M.; Beyer, Ross A.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; Smith, K. Ennico; Olkin, Cathy B.; New Horizons Geology and Geophysics Imaging Team (ISPRS, 2016)
    Pluto and Charon exhibit strikingly different surface appearances, despite their similar densities and presumed bulk compositions. Systematic mapping has revealed that much of Pluto's surface can be attributed to ...
  • Impact heat driven volatile redistribution at Occator crater on Ceres as a comparative planetary process 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Scully, J. E. C.; Buczkowski, Debra L.; Sizemore, Hanna G.; Schmidt, B.; Pieters, Carlé M.; Neesemann, A.; O'Brien, D. P.; Marchi, Simone; Williams, David A. (Planetary geologist); Nathues, A.; De Sanctis, M. Cristina; Tosi, F.; Russell, C. T. (Christopher T.); Castillo-Rogez, Julie; Raymond, Carol A. (Nature, 2020-08-10)
    Here we show using Dawn high-resolution stereo imaging and topography that Ceres' unique composition has resulted in widespread mantling by solidified water- and salt-rich mud-like impact melts with scattered endogenic ...
  • The missing large impact craters on Ceres 
    Marchi, Simone; Ermakov, A. I.; Raymond, Carol A.; Fu, Roger R. (Roger Rennan); O'Brien, D. P.; Bland, M. T.; Ammannito, E.; De Sanctis, M. Cristina; Bowling, T.; Schenk, Paul M.; Scully, J. E. C.; Buczkowski, Debra L.; Williams, David A. (Planetary geologist); Hiesinger, H. (Harald); Russell, C. T. (Christopher T.) (Nature, 2016-07-26)
    Asteroids provide fundamental clues to the formation and evolution of planetesimals. Collisional models based on the depletion of the primordial main belt of asteroids predict 10–15 craters 4400 km should have formed on ...
  • The nature and origin of Charon's smooth plains 
    Beyer, Ross A.; Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; McKinnon, William B.; Nimmo, Francis; Beddingfield, Chloe; Grundy, W. M.; Ennico, K.; Keane, James Tuttle; Moore, J. (Jeff); Olkin, Cathy B.; Robbins, Stuart; Runyon, Kirby; Schenk, Paul M.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; New Horizons Team; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-5793 (Elsevier, 2019-05-01)
    Charon displays extensive plains that cover the equatorial area and south to the terminator on the sub-Pluto hemisphere observed by New Horizons. We hypothesize that these plains are a result of Charon's global extension ...
  • A New Enceladus Global Control Network, Image Mosaic, and Updated Pointing Kernels From Cassini's 13‐Year Mission 
    Bland, M. T.; Edmundson, K. L.; Roatsch, Th.; Archinal, B. A.; Takir, D.; Patterson, G. W.; Collins, G. C.; Schenk, Paul M.; Pappalardo, Robert T.; Cook, D. A. (American Geophysical Union, 2018-09-24)
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft spent 13 years exploring the Saturn system, including 23 targeted flybys of the small, geologically active moon Enceladus. These flybys provided a wealth of image data from Cassini's Imaging Science ...
  • Pitted terrains on (1) Ceres and implications for shallow subsurface volatile distribution 
    Sizemore, Hanna G.; Schenk, Paul M. (American Geophysical Union, 2017-06-27)
    Prior to the arrival of the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres, the dwarf planet was anticipated to be ice‐rich. Searches for morphological features related to ice have been ongoing during Dawn's mission at Ceres. Here we report the ...
  • The Solar System in 3-D 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Gwynn, David W.; Tutor, James (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2005)
    A study of geology, atmospheres, and other structures using stereo imagery of the planets, their satellites, and the Sun.
  • TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission 
    Coustenis, Athena; Atreya, S. K.; Balint, T.; Brown, H. R.; Dougherty, M.; Schenk, Paul M. (Springer, 2008-07-08)
    TandEM was proposed as an L-class (large) mission in response to ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 Call, and accepted for further studies, with the goal of exploring Titan and Enceladus.
  • Teacher's guide to the 3-D tour of the Solar System 
    Karl, Rita (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1999)
    Contains the lessons to be used with the CD, 3-D Tour of the Solar System. The major topics are stereo imagery, space exploration, the Solar System and planetary geology.
  • Tectonism and enhanced cryovolcanic potential around a loaded Sputnik Planitia basin, Pluto 
    McGovern, Patrick J. (Geophysicist); White, Oliver L.; Schenk, Paul M. (AGU, 2021-11-25)
    The bright Sputnik Planitia region on Pluto is a vast plain consisting of a deposit of frozen nitrogen that fills a broad depressed area. The depression is probably the result of a large object colliding with Pluto; such ...
  • Topographic mapping of Pluto and Charon using New Horizons data 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Beyer, Ross A.; Moore, J. (Jeff); Spencer, John R. (John Robert), 1957-; McKinnon, William B.; Howard, Alan D.; White, Oliver L.; Umurhan, Orkan M., 1969-; Singer, Kelsi N.; Stern, Alan, 1957-; Weaver, Harold A., 1953-; Young, Leslie A.; Smith, K. Ennico; Olkin, Cathy B.; New Horizons Geology and Geophysics Imaging Team (ISPRS, 2016)
    New Horizons 2015 flyby of the Pluto system has resulted in high-resolution topographic maps of Pluto and Charon, the most distant objects so mapped. DEM's over ~30% of each object were produced at 100-300 m vertical and ...
  • Vesta in the Light Dawn: First Exploration of a Protoplanet in the Asteroid Belt : February 3-4, 2014, Houston, Texas 
    Binzel, Richard P.; Schenk, Paul M. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2014)
    The scope of this workshop, the first dedicated to Vesta as a planetary body, includes dynamics, impact mechanics and impactor flux, internal and surface composition, shape and internal structure, formation and geologic ...
  • Workshop on Europa's Icy Shell: Past, Present, and Future : February 6-8, 2004, Houston, Texas 
    Nimmo, Francis; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3573-5915; Prockter, Louise; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-1073; Schenk, Paul M.; Showman, Adam (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2004)
    The purpose was to discuss the current understanding of the icy shell, its physical state and evolution, and its interaction with the putative subsurface ocean. All aspects of the icy shell were considered, including ...
  • Workshop on Surface Ages and Histories : issues in planetary chronology : May 21-23, 2006, Houston, Texas 
    Schenk, Paul M.; Barlow, Nadine G.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5588-294X; Bierhaus, Beau (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2006)
    A fundamental unsolved issue facing planetary science is that of surface ages of solar system bodies. Just how old are the surfaces we see, and how many planets are still geologically active today? Are fresh lava flows on ...

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