Analysis of impact crater populations and the geochronology of planetary surfaces in the inner solar system

CI Fassett - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Analyzing the density of impact craters on planetary surfaces is the only known technique for
learning their ages remotely. As a result, crater statistics have been widely analyzed on the …

Dating very young planetary surfaces from crater statistics: A review of issues and challenges

JP Williams, CH van der Bogert… - … & Planetary Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the ages of young planetary surfaces relies on using populations of small, often
sub‐km diameter impact craters due to the higher frequency at which they form. Smaller …

Classification and analysis of candidate impact crater-hosted closed-basin lakes on Mars

TA Goudge, KL Aureli, JW Head, CI Fassett, JF Mustard - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new catalog of 205 candidate closed-basin lakes contained within impact
craters across the surface of Mars. These basins have an inlet valley that incises the crater …

Minimum effective area for high resolution crater counting of martian terrains

NH Warner, S Gupta, F Calef, P Grindrod, N Boll… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The acquisition of high-resolution imagery for the surface of Mars has enabled map** of
spatially limited (order of< 10 3 km 2) landforms such as alluvial fans, deltas, and lacustrine …

The high resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) during MRO's primary science phase (PSP)

AS McEwen, ME Banks, N Baugh, K Becker, A Boyd… - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter (MRO) acquired 8terapixels of data in 9137 images of Mars between October 2006 …

Geologic map of Jezero crater and the Nili Planum region, Mars

VZ Sun, KM Stack - 2020 - pubs.usgs.gov
The cratered highlands located northwest of Isidis Planitia have been recognized as one of
the best preserved Noachian (~ 3.7–4.1 Ga; Nimmo and Tanaka, 2005) landscapes …

Crater-based dating of geological units on Mars: Methods and application for the new global geological map

T Platz, G Michael, KL Tanaka, JA Skinner Jr… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
The new, post-Viking generation of Mars orbital imaging and topographical data provide
significant higher-resolution details of surface morphologies, which induced a new effort to …

The various ages of Occator crater, Ceres: Results of a comprehensive synthesis approach

A Neesemann, S Van Gasselt, N Schmedemann… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The 90.5-km Occator crater, with its peculiar and unique bright spots, is one of the
most prominent and renowned feature on Ceres. Occator attracted broad public attention in …

Problems determining relative and absolute ages using the small crater population

Z **ao, RG Strom - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
The small crater populations (diameter smaller than 1km) are widely used to date planetary
surfaces. The reliability of small crater counts is tested by counting small craters at several …

Constraints on the history of open‐basin lakes on Mars from the composition and timing of volcanic resurfacing

TA Goudge, JF Mustard, JW Head… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abundant evidence exists for valley network‐related fluvial activity near the Noachian‐
Hesperian transition on Mars, and areally significant quantities of volcanic ridged plains …