Don E. Wilhelms
United States Geological Survey
26 Papers
409 Citations
Don E. Wilhelms is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Impact crater & Mars Exploration Program. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 26 publications.
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The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons.
Jeffrey M. Moore,William B. McKinnon,John R. Spencer,Alan D. Howard,Paul M. Schenk,Ross A. Beyer,Ross A. Beyer,Francis Nimmo,Kelsi N. Singer,Orkan M. Umurhan,Oliver L. White,S. Alan Stern,Kimberly Ennico,Catherine B. Olkin,Harold A. Weaver,Leslie A. Young,Richard P. Binzel,Marc W. Buie,Bonnie J. Buratti,Andrew F. Cheng,Dale P. Cruikshank,William M. Grundy,Ivan Linscott,Harold J. Reitsema,Dennis C. Reuter,Mark R. Showalter,Veronica J. Bray,C. L. Chavez,C. L. Chavez,Carly Howett,Tod R. Lauer,Carey M. Lisse,Alex Parker,Simon B. Porter,Stuart J. Robbins,Kirby Runyon,T. Stryk,Henry B. Throop,Constantine Tsang,Anne J. Verbiscer,Amanda M. Zangari,Andrew L. Chaikin,Don E. Wilhelms +42 more
TL;DR: Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has revealed a complex geology of Pluto and Charon, including evidence of tectonics, glacial flow, and possible cryovolcanoes, and these findings massively increase the understanding of the bodies in the outer solar system.
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Large-scale volcano-ground ice interaction on Mars.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the process of volcano-ground ice interaction on Mars by thermodynamic calculations and observations of Viking Orbiter images and developed a numerical model of volcano ground ice interaction that includes heat transport by conduction, radiation from the surface, heat transfer to the atmosphere, and H 2 O phase changes in an ice-rich permafrost.
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Mercurian volcanism questioned
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that the plains on Mercury may have been formed from impact materials, possibly impact melts or other basin ejecta which behaved more like a fluid than did the lunar ejecta.
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The Sculptured Hills of the Taurus Highlands: Implications for the relative age of Serenitatis, basin chronologies and the cratering history of the Moon
TL;DR: This paper showed that the Sculptured Hills in the Taurus highlands is Imbrium ejecta and not directly related to the formation of the Serenitatis basin, leaving their provenance undetermined and origin unexplained.
The moon: sources of the crustal magnetic anomalies.
TL;DR: Previously unmapped Apollo 16 subsatellite magnetometer data collected at low altitudes over the lunar near side are presented, implying that magnetization of lunar crustal materials must have continued for a period exceeding 1 billion years.
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