Margaret Landis

Peer-Reviewed Publications (indicates student/mentee first author)

Landis, M.E., T.H Prettyman, J. Castillo-Rogez, N. Yamashita (2025). Role of natron in delaying retreat of buried ice tables on Ceres. Planetary Science Journal. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ae0333

Landis, M.E., C.M. Dundas, A.S. McEwen, I.J. Daubar, P.O. Hayne, S. Byrne, S.S. Sutton, A. Britton, and K.E. Herkenhoff (2024). New, dated small impacts on the South Polar Layered Deposits, Mars, and implications for shallow subsurface properties. Icarus 16 Years of MRO Special Issue. doi:j.icarus.2024.115977

Landis, M.E., P.J. Acharya, N.R. Alsaeed, C. Andres, P. Becerra, W.M. Calvin, E.M. Cangi, S.F.A. Cartwright, M.S. Chaffin, S. Diniega, C.M. Dundas, C.J. Hansen, P.O. Hayne, K.E. Herkenhoff, D.M. Kass, A.R. Khuller, L. McKeown, P. S. Russell, I.B. Smith, S.S. Sutton, J.M. Widmer, J.L. Whitten (2024). Polar Science Results from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Multiwavelength, multiyear insights. Icarus 16 Years of MRO Special Issue. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115794

Landis, M.E., J.L. Whitten (2022). Geologic context of the bright MARSIS reflectors in Ultimi Scopuli, South Polar Layered Deposits, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2022GL098724

Landis, M.E., P.O Hayne, J.-P. Williams, B.T. Greenhagen, D.A. Paige (2022). Spatial distribution and thermal diversity of surface volatile cold traps at the lunar poles. Planetary Science Journal. doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ac4585/

Landis, M.E., J.C. Castillo-Rogez, P. O. Hayne, K. H. G. Hughson, D. Kubitschek, T. H. Prettyman, A. S. Rivkin, B. E. Schmidt, J. E. C. Scully, N. Yamashita, M. N. Villarreal, and CU Aerospace Engineering Students. (2022). The case for a Themis asteroid family spacecraft mission. Planetary and Space Science. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2021.105413

Landis, M.E., S. Byrne, J.-P. Combe, S. Marchi, J. Castillo-Rogez, H.G. Sizemore, N. Schorghofer, T.H. Prettyman, P. Hayne, C. Raymond, C.T. Russell. (2019). Water Vapor Contribution to Ceres' Exosphere from Observed Surface Ice and Postulated Ice-Exposing Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. doi:10.1029/2018JE005780

Landis, M.E., S. Byrne, N. Schörghofer, B.E. Schmidt, P.O. Hayne, J. Castillo-Rogez, M.V. Sykes, J.-P. Combe, A. I. Ermakov, T.H. Prettyman, C. Raymond, C.T. Russell (2017), Conditions for Sublimating Water Ice to Supply Ceres' Exosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, doi:10.1002/2017JE005335

Landis, M. E., S. Byrne, I. J. Daubar, K. E. Herkenhoff, and C. M. Dundas (2016). A revised surface age for the North Polar Layered Deposits of Mars, Geophysical Research Letters 43, 3060–3068, doi:10.1002/2016GL068434.

Jakosky, B. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2026). The history of Martian water during the Hesperian and Amazonian epochs. Icarus. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116782

Malaspina, D.M., J.R. Szalay, A. Mazurkiewicz, D. Lee-Bellows, M.E. Landis (2025). A Search for Meteoroid Streams and Their Sources in the Near-Sun Zodiacal Dust Cloud. Astrophysical Journal. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0184

O’Brien, P., J.E.C. Scully, M.E. Landis, N. Schorghöfer, P.O. Hayne. (2024) Enhancement of the Cerean Exosphere by Sublimation from Complex Craters. The Planetary Science Journal. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ad60c9

Innanen, A.C., M.E. Landis, P.O. Hayne, J.E. Moores (2022). Possible Atmospheric Water Vapour Contribution from Martian Swiss Cheese Terrain. The Planetary Science Journal. doi: article/10.3847/PSJ/ac979e

Wynne, J.J. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2022). Planetary Caves: A Solar System View of Processes and Products. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doi:10.1029/2022JE007303

Wilcoski, A. X., P.O. Hayne, M.E. Landis. (2022). Polar Ice Accumulation from Volcanically Induced Transient Atmospheres on the Moon. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(5). doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ac649c

Sutton, S.S, et. al (incl. M.E. Landis) (2022). Revealing active Mars with HiRISE digital terrain models. Remote Sensing 14(10), 2403; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14102403

Prettyman, T.P., N. Yamashita, M.E. Landis, J.C. Castillo-Rogez, B.L. Ehlmann, H.Y. McSween, M.J. Toplis, S. Marchi, C.M. Pieters, N. Schorghofer, C.T. Russell, M.D. Rayman, C.A. Raymond. (2021). Replenishment of Near-Surface Water Ice by Impacts Into Ceres' Volatile-Rich Crust: Observations by Dawn's Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2021GL094223

Dundas, C.M. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2021). Active Mars: A Dynamic World. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. doi:10.1029/2021JE006876

Dundas, C.M. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2021). Widespread Exposures of Extensive Clean Shallow Ice in the Mid-Latitudes of Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. doi: 10.1029/2020JE006617

Smith, I.B., et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2020). The Holy Grail: A Roadmap for Unlocking the Climate Record Stored within Mars’ Polar Layered Deposits. Planetary and Space Science. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.104841

Scully, J.E.C. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2020). The Varied Sources of Faculae-Forming Brines in Ceres’ Occator Crater, Emplaced via Brine Effusion in a Hydrothermal System. Nature Communications.doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15973-8

Sizemore, H.G. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2019). A Global Inventory of Ice-Related Morphological Features on Dwarf Planet Ceres: Implications for the evolution and current state of the cryosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doi:10.1029/2018JE005699

Chilton, H. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis) (2019). Landslides on Ceres: Inferences into ice content and layering in the upper crust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doi:10.1029/2018JE005634

Duarte, K.D. et al (incl. M.E. Landis) (2019). Landslides on Ceres: Diversity and Geologic Context. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. doi:10.1029/2018JE005673

Elder, C. M. et al. (incl. M.E. Landis). (2018). OCEANUS: A high science return Uranus orbiter with a low-cost instrument suite. Acta Astronautica, 148, pp.1-11.

Ruesch, O., L.C. Quick, M.E. Landis, M.M. Sori, O. Čadek, P. Brož,  K.A. Otto, M.T. Bland, S. Byrne, J.C. Castillo-Rogez, H. Hiesinger. (2018). Bright carbonate surfaces on Ceres as remnants of salt-rich water fountains. Icarus. doi: j.icarus.2018.01.022

Combe, J.-P. et al., (incl. M.E. Landis) (2018). Exposed H2O-rich areas detected on Ceres with the Dawn Visible and InfraRed mapping spectrometer, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.008

Schorghofer, N., S. Byrne, M.E. Landis, E. Mazarico, T.H. Prettyman, B.E. Schmidt, M.N.  Villarreal, J. Castillo-Rogez, C.A. Raymond, C.T. Russell (2017). The putative cerean exosphere, Astrophysical Journal, 85:1, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa932f

Robbins, S.J., W.A. Watters, J.E. Chappelow, V.J. Bray, I.J. Daubar, R.A. Craddock, R.A. Beyer, M.E. Landis, L.R. Ostrach, L. Tornabene, J.D. Riggs, B.P. Weaver (2017). Measuring impact crater depth throughout the solar system, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, doi: 10.1111/maps.12956

Combe, J.-P., T.B. McCord, F. Tosi, E. Ammannito, F.G. Carrozzo, M.C. De Sanctis, A. Raponi, S. Byrne, M.E. Landis, K.H.G. Hughson, C.A Raymond, C.T. Russell (2016). Detection of local H2O exposed at the surface of Ceres, Science, 353:6303, doi:10.1126/science.aaf3010

Platz, T., A. Nathues, N. Schorghofer, Frank Preusker, E. Mazarico, S. E. Schröder, S. Byrne, T. Kneissl, N. Schmedemann, J.-P. Combe, M. Schafer, G.S. Thangjam, M. Hoffman, P. Gutierrez-Marques, M.E. Landis, W. Dietrich, J. Ripken, K.-D. Matz, C. T. Russell (2016). Surface water-ice deposits in the northern shadowed regions of Ceres. Nature Astronomy 1 (2016): 0007.

Sori, M.M., J. Bapst, A. Bramson, S. Byrne, M.E. Landis (2017). A Wunda-full world? Carbon dioxide ice deposits on Umbriel and other Uranian moons, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.02.029

Sori, M. M., S. Byrne, C. W. Hamilton, and M. E. Landis (2016). Viscous flow rates of icy topography on the north polar layered deposits of Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 541–549, doi:10.1002/2015GL067298.

Book Chapters

Landis, M.E., J. Castillo-Rogez, C. Ahrens (2024). Ceres—A Volatile-Rich Dwarf Planet in the Asteroid Belt. In R. Soare, J.-P. Williams, C. Ahrens, F. Butcher & M. El-Maary (Eds.) Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to it Far Reaches. Elsevier Science. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-99324-1.00010-9

Prettyman, T., Englert, P., Yamashita, N., & Landis, M.E. (2019). Neutron, Gamma-Ray, and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Planetary Bodies. In J. Bishop, J. Bell III, & J. Moersch (Eds.),Remote Compositional Analysis: Techniques for Understanding Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of Planetary Surfaces(Cambridge Planetary Science, pp. 588-603). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316888872.032

First Author White Papers

Landis, M. E., J. C. Castillo-Rogez, P. O. Hayne, H. H. Hsieh, K. H. G. Hughson, K. E. Miller, D. Kubitschek, T. H. Prettyman, A. S. Rivkin, B. E. Schmidt, J. E. C. Scully, N. Yamashita, M. N. Villarreal (2020) “Why we should study the Themis Asteroid Family in the 2023-2032 Decade”. Submitted to the National Academy Planetary Science & Astrobiology Decadal Survey

Landis, M. E., B. T. Greenhagen, P. O. Hayne, D. A. Paige, J.-P. Williams (2020) “Temperature Variations Within the Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Regions”. Submitted to NASA Artemis Science White Papers