Reorientation and faulting of Pluto due to volatile loading within Sputnik Planitia

Recent tectonic activity on Pluto driven by phase changes in the ice shell

(2016) Noah P. Hammond et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Formation of the Sputnik Planum basin and the thickness of Pluto's subsurface ocean

(2016) Brandon C. Johnson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Vigorous convection as the explanation for Pluto’s polygonal terrain

(2016) A. J. Trowbridge et al.   NATURE

Convection in a volatile nitrogen-ice-rich layer drives Pluto’s geological vigour

(2016) William B. McKinnon et al.   NATURE

The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons

(2016) J. M. Moore et al.   SCIENCE

The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons

(2016) G. R. Gladstone et al.   SCIENCE

Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon

(2016) W. M. Grundy et al.   SCIENCE

Global thrust faulting on the Moon and the influence of tidal stresses

(2015) Thomas R. Watters et al.   GEOLOGY

Powering Triton’s recent geological activity by obliquity tides: Implications for Pluto geology

(2015) F. Nimmo et al.   ICARUS

Pluto’s insolation history: Latitudinal variations and effects on atmospheric pressure

(2015) Alissa M. Earle et al.   ICARUS

Pluto’s climate modeled with new observational constraints

(2015) C.J. Hansen et al.   ICARUS

The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

(2015) S. A. Stern et al.   SCIENCE

Planetary Reorientation

(2014) Isamu Matsuyama et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evidence for lunar true polar wander and a past low-eccentricity, synchronous lunar orbit

(2014) James Tuttle Keane et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Origin of Lunar Mascon Basins

(2013) H. J. Melosh et al.   SCIENCE

Tectonic patterns on reoriented and despun planetary bodies

(2008) Isamu Matsuyama et al.   ICARUS

Modeling stresses on satellites due to nonsynchronous rotation and orbital eccentricity using gravitational potential theory

(2008) John Wahr et al.   ICARUS

True polar wander on Europa from global-scale small-circle depressions

(2008) Paul Schenk et al.   NATURE