Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

First-Author Publications

  1. Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2024). The history and processes of Titan's equator from the geospatial topology of spectrally distinct units. Icarus, 116073.
  2. Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2022). Titan stratospheric haze bands observed in Cassini VIMS as tracers of meridional circulation. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(5), 114.
  3. Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2021). Pluto's haze abundance and size distribution from limb scatter observations by MVIC. The Planetary Science Journal, 2(3), 91.

Co-Authored Publications

  1. Rubbrecht, N., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2025). Peculiar rainbows in Saturn's E ring: Uncovering luminous bands near Enceladus. Icarus.
  2. Nixon, C. A., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2025). The atmosphere of Titan in late northern summer from JWST and Keck observations. Nature Astronomy.
  3. Moruzzi, S. A., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (submitted). Sub-resolution properties of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from Hapke modelling.
  4. Fan, S., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2022). A bimodal distribution of haze in Pluto's atmosphere. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1–11.
  5. Tang, Y., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2019). Generation of photoclinometric digital terrain models for transient changes on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630, A10.
  6. Birch, S. P., Kutsop, N. W., et al. (2017). Geomorphology of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Icarus, S50–S67.
  7. Trueblood, M., Kutsop, N. W., Bell, D., & Crawford, R. (2013). Minor Planet Electronic Circulars, June 2011 BT15.

Selected Presentations

Invited

New Horizons Science Team Meeting, June 2021 — Pluto's haze abundance and size from limb scatter observations by MVIC.

Conference Presentations (selected)

  1. 6th Titan Through Time, 2023 — Introduction to the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS); Statistically distinct spectral features of Titan poles.
  2. 53rd Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, 2022 — Relative composition of Titan's equator via PCA and k-means clustering.
  3. 52nd Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, 2021 — Stratospheric haze bands observed in Cassini VIMS.
  4. 52nd AAS Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, 2020 — Pluto's haze abundance and size distribution from limb scatter observations by MVIC.
  5. 50th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, 2019 — Titan's atmospheric annuli as observed by Cassini VIMS.