Abstract The Yarkovsky and YORP (Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack) effects are
thermal radiation forces and torques that cause small objects to undergo semimajor axis drift …

The selection of the Discovery Program InSight landing site took over four years from initial
identification of possible areas that met engineering constraints, to downselection via …

The HiRISE camera features a 0.5 m diameter primary mirror, 12 m effective focal length,
and a focal plane system that can acquire images containing up to 28 Gb (gigabits) of data …

The Context Camera (CTX) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a Facility
Instrument (ie, government‐furnished equipment operated by a science team not …

Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions
of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the …

Abstract China's Mars rover, Zhurong, touched down on Utopia Planitia in the northern
lowlands of Mars (109.925° E, 25.066° N) in May 2021, and has been conducting in situ …

The main belt is believed to have originally contained an Earth mass or more of material,
enough to allow the asteroids to accrete on relatively short timescales. The present-day …

The Moon is a unique body in our Solar System that allows us to groundtruth remotesensing
data (eg, crater size–frequency distributions, or CSFDs, crater/rock degradation rates …

The Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera has acquired data that establish the present-
day impact cratering rate and document new deposits formed by downslope movement of …

Viking mission image data revealed the total spatial extent of preserved volcanic surface on
Mars. One of the dominating surface expressions is Olympus Mons and the surrounding …