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Orbit insertion approach angle comparisons. Unl...

Orbit insertion approach angle comparisons. Unlike typical Jupiter arrival geometries (l...

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Example Uranus orbit insertion outside the zeta...

Example Uranus orbit insertion outside the zeta ring. Uranus orbit insertion maneuver tr...

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A UOP SEP stage proof-of-concept design. The up...

A UOP SEP stage proof-of-concept design. The updated UOP orbiter stacked with an SEP sta...

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Deliverable mass for example SEP trajectories. ...

Deliverable mass for example SEP trajectories. For flight times of 12–14 yr, sufficient ...

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UOP spacecraft configurations in the 2021 Decad...

UOP spacecraft configurations in the 2021 Decadal (left) and updated (right) designs. Th...

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UOP probe configurations in the 2021 Decadal (l...

UOP probe configurations in the 2021 Decadal (left) and updated (right) designs. The new...

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Concept of operations a satellite-focused orbit...

Concept of operations a satellite-focused orbit. Science observations were interleaved w...

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Power and data volume profiles for the case in ...

Power and data volume profiles for the case in Figure 7. Top: power was limited to ∼40% ...

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Same as Figure 7, but for a rings and atmospher...

Same as Figure 7, but for a rings and atmospheric science focused orbit.

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Power and data volume profiles for the case in ...

Power and data volume profiles for the case in Figure 9.

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Same as Figure 7, but for a field and particles...

Same as Figure 7, but for a field and particles-focused orbit.

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Power and data volume profiles for the case in ...

Power and data volume profiles for the case in Figure 11.

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Upper: global map of Ganymede marking the locat...

Upper: global map of Ganymede marking the locations and sizes of the 20 ROIs, as well as...

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Shows plots of the best-fit spectral models (st...

Shows plots of the best-fit spectral models (step 6) for all ROIs (including the referen...

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Fractional abundance (percentage) of major mode...

Fractional abundance (percentage) of major modeled surface components for all ROIs and r...

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Comparison of best-fit spectral models for ROI ...

Comparison of best-fit spectral models for ROI #10 across the three temperature ranges. ...

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Spectral fits illustrating examples of outlier ...

Spectral fits illustrating examples of outlier behavior among the modeled ROIs. ROI #6 d...

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Paterae on Triton and Ganymede. (a) Potential l...

Paterae on Triton and Ganymede. (a) Potential lobate flow on Triton, in a chain of volca...

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Paterae on Io and Ganymede. (a) Tupan Patera on...

Paterae on Io and Ganymede. (a) Tupan Patera on Io from Galileo (NASA/JPL: PIA03601). (b...

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Representative best-fit spectra for ROIs #1, #8...

Representative best-fit spectra for ROIs #1, #8, and #13. Each plot shows the NIMS refle...

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Comparison of spectra of ROIs with their respec...

Comparison of spectra of ROIs with their respective reference pixels for the pixels cont...

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Locations (yellow circles) of ROIs that include...

Locations (yellow circles) of ROIs that include paterae, potential flows, and cryovolcan...

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Paterae on Mars and Ganymede. (a) Eden Patera o...

Paterae on Mars and Ganymede. (a) Eden Patera on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Un...

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Well-defined potential paterae and flows on Gan...

Well-defined potential paterae and flows on Ganymede. The orange arrows correspond to po...

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Poorly defined potential paterae and resurfaced...

Poorly defined potential paterae and resurfaced regions on Ganymede. The orange arrows c...

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