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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
13656
World Ranking
1788
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Oded Aharonson is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Instrumentation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae, Space Exploration and Technology, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Aharonson's recent published works include:

  • ULTRASAT: A Wide-field Time-domain UV Space Telescope, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
  • A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-eccentricity Multitransiting Systems, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Large Array Survey Telescope-Science Goals, 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • The science mission of SpaceIL's Beresheet lander, 2020, Planetary and Space Science

Frequent collaborators of Aharonson include A. Ofir, Eran Vos, Yair Judkovsky, Ehouarn Millour, and F. Forget.

The scientist has published numerous articles in notable venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Icarus
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Best Publications

  • Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter: Experiment summary after the first year of global mapping of Mars

    David E. Smith;Maria T. Zuber;Herbert V. Frey;James B. Garvin

  • The Global Topography of Mars and Implications for Surface Evolution

    David E. Smith;Maria T. Zuber;Maria T. Zuber;Sean C. Solomon;Roger J. Phillips

  • Internal Structure and Early Thermal Evolution of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor Topography and Gravity

    Maria T. Zuber;Maria T. Zuber;Sean C. Solomon;Roger J. Phillips;David E. Smith

  • Ancient Geodynamics and Global-Scale Hydrology on Mars

    Roger J. Phillips;Maria T. Zuber;Maria T. Zuber;Sean C. Solomon;Matthew P. Golombek

  • Initial observations from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)

    David Edmund Smith;David Edmund Smith;Maria Zuber;Gregory A. Neumann;Frank G. Lemoine

  • Localized gravity/topography admittance and correlation spectra on Mars: Implications for regional and global evolution

    Patrick J. McGovern;Sean C. Solomon;David E. Smith;Maria T. Zuber

  • New Perspectives on Ancient Mars

    Sean C. Solomon;Oded Aharonson;Jonathan M. Aurnou;W. Bruce Banerdt

  • Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan: Distribution and interaction with a porous regolith

    A. Hayes;O. Aharonson;P. Callahan;C. Elachi

  • Global regolith thermophysical properties of the Moon from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment

    Paul O. Hayne;Joshua L. Bandfield;Matthew A. Siegler;Ashwin R. Vasavada

  • Observations of the North Polar Region of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

    Maria T. Zuber;David E. Smith;Sean C. Solomon;James B. Abshire

  • Mega-impact formation of the Mars hemispheric dichotomy

    Margarita M. Marinova;Oded Aharonson;Erik Asphaug

  • Titan's inventory of organic surface materials

    Ralph D. Lorenz;Karl L. Mitchell;Randolph L. Kirk;Alexander G. Hayes

  • Stability and exchange of subsurface ice on Mars

    Norbert Schorghofer;Oded Aharonson

  • The shape of 433 eros from the NEAR-shoemaker laser rangefinder

    Maria T. Zuber;David E. Smith;Andrew F. Cheng;James B. Garvin

  • Pyroclastic activity at Home Plate in Gusev Crater, Mars.

    Steven W. Squyres;O. Aharonson;Benton C. Clark;B. A. Cohen

  • Global surface slopes and roughness of the Moon from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter

    M. A. Rosenburg;O. Aharonson;J. W. Head;M. A. Kreslavsky

  • Evidence for surface water ice in the lunar polar regions using reflectance measurements from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter and temperature measurements from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

    Elizabeth A. Fisher;Elizabeth A. Fisher;Paul G. Lucey;Myriam Lemelin;Benjamin T. Greenhagen

  • Correction to “Localized gravity/topography admittance and correlation spectra on Mars: Implications for regional and global evolution”

    Patrick J. McGovern;Sean C. Solomon;David E. Smith;Maria T. Zuber

  • An asymmetric distribution of lakes on Titan as a possible consequence of orbital forcing

    O. Aharonson;A. G. Hayes;J. I. Lunine;R. D. Lorenz

  • Constraints on the volatile distribution within Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole

    Maria T. Zuber;James W. Head;David E. Smith;Gregory A. Neumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory A. Neumann
Gregory A. Neumann Goddard Space Flight Center
Alexander G. Hayes
Alexander G. Hayes Cornell University
James W. Head
James W. Head Brown University
Ralph D. Lorenz
Ralph D. Lorenz Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Roger J. Phillips
Roger J. Phillips Washington University in St. Louis
Sean C. Solomon
Sean C. Solomon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Kevin W. Lewis
Kevin W. Lewis Johns Hopkins University
Ellen R. Stofan
Ellen R. Stofan Smithsonian Institution
John T. Schofield
John T. Schofield California Institute of Technology

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