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Schematic illustrating basal melt rising from c...

Schematic illustrating basal melt rising from collection area at depth toward the surfac...

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The northern and eastern portions of SP; north ...

The northern and eastern portions of SP; north is to the top. Upper left panel: panchrom...

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Flow over the ice sheet surface before freezing...

Flow over the ice sheet surface before freezing halts movement. Created using known and ...

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Meltwater channels and ponds on the Greenland i...

Meltwater channels and ponds on the Greenland ice sheet (Landsat 9 image provided by J. ...

S. A. Stern et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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A model depicting the basal temperature Tb as a...

A model depicting the basal temperature Tb as a function of layer depth H for input para...

S. A. Stern et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Sensitivity of mean vertical fluid velocity w t...

Sensitivity of mean vertical fluid velocity w to dike width under SP conditions for a ra...

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Equilibrium grain size for model shown in Figur...

Equilibrium grain size for model shown in Figure C1. For layer depths in which H < Ht, n...

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Sensitivity of mean vertical velocity w to mean...

Sensitivity of mean vertical velocity w to mean dike width 2a under SP conditions for a ...

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Critical dike width required to sustain flow to...

Critical dike width required to sustain flow to the surface through the cold SP ice shee...

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Predicted emergent geothermal flux Fg as a func...

Predicted emergent geothermal flux Fg as a function of methane clathrate thickness Hc an...

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Evolution of dike width with time for an interm...

Evolution of dike width with time for an intermediate-viscosity (μ = 0.1 Pa s) N2 magma....

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Critical dike width 2acr required to sustain fl...

Critical dike width 2acr required to sustain flow to the surface through the cold SP ice...

S. A. Stern et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Like Figure A1 except for a mean ice-shell thic...

Like Figure A1 except for a mean ice-shell thickness of 200 km corresponding to a liquid...

S. A. Stern et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Independent predictions of the stellar occultat...

Independent predictions of the stellar occultations by Hi‘iaka (using the JPL#130+SPICE ...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Barycentric wobble as a function of separation ...

Barycentric wobble as a function of separation and mass ratio for TNO binaries with uniq...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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On-sky positional uncertainties of Uni’s satell...

On-sky positional uncertainties of Uni’s satellite, Tinia. In the left panel, we show th...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Predicted stellar occultation by Namaka on 2025...

Predicted stellar occultation by Namaka on 2025 March 16 UT (using the JPL#130+SPICE ker...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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A not-to-scale schematic representation of how ...

A not-to-scale schematic representation of how our method constructs ephemerides for TNO...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Predicted stellar occultation by Tinia (black d...

Predicted stellar occultation by Tinia (black dotted lines) with 1σ uncertainty marked a...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Normalized stellar flux ratio with uncertaintie...

Normalized stellar flux ratio with uncertainties as measured from each station, as a fun...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Positive chords (solid green and blue) with unc...

Positive chords (solid green and blue) with uncertainties (solid red) and negative recor...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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A prediction for a favorable occultation of Tin...

A prediction for a favorable occultation of Tinia in 2026 December. Blue solid lines sho...

Flavia L. Rommel et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Pluto’s orientation relative to Earth at the mi...

Pluto’s orientation relative to Earth at the midtime of each occultation along with sky-...

Amanda A. Sickafoose et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Globes with reconstructed shadow paths on Earth...

Globes with reconstructed shadow paths on Earth and the locations of the observing stati...

Amanda A. Sickafoose et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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Example image from the single successful telesc...

Example image from the single successful telescope for the 2017 August 7 event (details ...

Amanda A. Sickafoose et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 7

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