Progresses and prospects of impact crater studies

Z Yue, K Shi, K Di, Y Lin, S Gou - Science China Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Crater is a geologic structure in solid bodies (including the terrestrial planets, moons, and
asteroids) formed by hyper-speed impact, and the impact process is extremely important to …

The lunar cratering chronology

H Hiesinger, CH Van der Bogert… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Global distribution of large lunar craters: Implications for resurfacing and impactor populations

JW Head III, CI Fassett, SJ Kadish, DE Smith, MT Zuber… - science, 2010 - science.org
By using high-resolution altimetric measurements of the Moon, we produced a catalog of all
impact craters≥ 20 kilometers in diameter on the lunar surface and analyzed their …

The violent collisional history of asteroid 4 Vesta

S Marchi, HY McSween, DP O'Brien, P Schenk… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Vesta is a large differentiated rocky body in the main asteroid belt that accreted within the
first few million years after the formation of the earliest solar system solids. The Dawn …

The variability of crater identification among expert and community crater analysts

SJ Robbins, I Antonenko, MR Kirchoff, CR Chapman… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
The identification of impact craters on planetary surfaces provides important information
about their geological history. Most studies have relied on individual analysts who map and …

Lunar impact basins: Stratigraphy, sequence and ages from superposed impact crater populations measured from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data

CI Fassett, JW Head, SJ Kadish… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Impact basin formation is a fundamental process in the evolution of the Moon and records
the history of impactors in the early solar system. In order to assess the stratigraphy …

Sequence and timing of conditions on early Mars

CI Fassett, JW Head - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
The geological record of early Mars displays a variety of features that indicate fundamental
differences from more recent conditions. These include evidence for:(1) widespread …

Predictions for the Dynamical States of the Didymos System before and after the Planned DART Impact

DC Richardson, HF Agrusa, B Barbee… - The planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is planned to impact
the natural satellite of (65803) Didymos, Dimorphos, at around 23: 14 UTC on 2022 …

Crater density differences: Exploring regional resurfacing, secondary crater populations, and crater saturation equilibrium on the moon

RZ Povilaitis, MS Robinson, CH Van der Bogert… - Planetary and Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
The global population of lunar craters> 20 km in diameter was analyzed by Head et
al.,(2010) to correlate crater distribution with resurfacing events and multiple impactor …

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 …