Lunar Craters
Degradation of small simple and large complex lunar craters: Not a simple scale dependence
... putative lunar cataclysm (Tera et ...the lunar sur- face during a period of intense ...ancient lunar highland was postulated to have been bombarded by an impactor population different from the one ...
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Re-examining the main asteroid belt as the primary source of ancient lunar craters
... the lunar bombardment produced by disrupting the main asteroid belt was challenged when it was shown that if the migra- tion rates of Jupiter and Saturn were too slow they would have caused the terrestrial planets ...
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A Multispectral Assessment of Complex Impact Craters on the Lunar Farside
... on lunar craters have long been characterized as: 1) smooth deposits with low albedo that pool within depressions, 2) occur with various morphologies such as veneers, and melt ponds, and 3) are not ...
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Lunar polar craters - icy, rough or just sloping?
... anomalous craters (blue filled circles), 9 fresh craters (red open circles) and 154 topographically selected, isolated polar craters (black ...
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Unravelling the mystery of lunar anomalous craters using radar and infrared observations.
... 12 lunar craters (150–950 m in diameter) with known ages and found that the median survival time of meter-scale surface rocks is about 40–80 Ma and that the 99% survival time is about 150–300 ...
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Effects of target properties on the formation of lunar impact craters in the simple-to-complex transition
... proximity craters are smaller than 2 km and therefore many of them may not have a single LOLA track passing through their ...SLDEM. Craters well-distributed across the lunar surface and ...
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LU60645GT and MA132843GT Catalogues of Lunar and Martian Impact Craters Developed Using a Crater Shape-based Interpolation Crater Detection Algorithm for Topography Data
... 57,633 craters from the manually assembled catalogues and 72,668 additional craters identified using several crater detection algorithms (CDAs) have been merged into the MA130301GT ...and Lunar ...
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The scientific case for renewed human activities on the Moon
... impact craters of all sizes (from micron-sized pits up to the 900 km diameter Orientale ...pristine lunar craters of a range of sizes would greatly aid in our understanding of the impact cratering ...
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Impact Melt Emplacement on Mercury
... and lunar complex craters. Lunar craters show a notable spike in values at and near the “coincide” regime, that is not present as such on Venus and ...Mercury’s craters seem to follow a ...
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Recognition of landslides in lunar impact craters
... detailed lunar landslide inventory is still ...of lunar landslides in impact craters has been done using visual inspection on images and digital elevation model (DEM) (Brunetti et ...global ...
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Lunar resources: a review
... With a few exceptions (discussed elsewhere in this paper), the extent to which the lunar crust may contain bodies of locally concentrated ‘ores’ of economically exploitable materials is still largely unknown. ...
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The end of the lunar dynamo
... that lunar samples are expected to have viscous overprints with 1-hour blocking tem- peratures somewhere between ~125° and 485°C (32, 33), consistent with the observed peak unblocking temperature of the LC compo- ...
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Morphology and Morphometry of Double Layered Ejecta Craters on Mars
... Impact cratering is a geologic process common on every planetary body throughout the solar system. This process involves a projectile (e.g., asteroid, comet) striking the surface of another planetary body at high ...
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Peering into Past: What Happened to the Moon 3 6 Billion Years Ago?
... of lunar iron grains was 27 μm, which only differs from the average size of the grains of terrestrial iron by ~21 μm, and even the maximum average size of the lunar iron particles at ~40 μm is only twice as ...
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Lunar exploration: opening a window into the history and evolution of the inner Solar System
... of lunar science objectives was given by a US National Research Council (NRC) study in 2007 [1], and this is summarised in Table ...the lunar science community, and forms the basis for planning future ...
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Announcements
... LPI-LAPST Sponsored Workshop 'Lunar Volcanic Glasses: Scientific and Resource Potential, October 10-12, 1989 Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston,.. TX.[r] ...
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An unusual clast in lunar meteorite MacAlpine Hills 88105: a unique lunar sample or projectile debris?
... Joy, K.H. and Crawford, Ian and Huss, G.R. and Nagashima, K and Taylor, G.J. (2014) An unusual clast in lunar meteorite MacAlpine Hills 88105: a unique lunar sample or projectile debris? Meteoritics and ...
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Global lunar surface mapping experiment using the Lunar Imager/Spectrometer on SELENE
... the lunar polar orbiter SELENE (Kaguya) (Kato et ...long-term lunar exploration program and acquire data for scientific knowledge and possible utilization of the ...the Lunar Imager/Spectrometer ...
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Is There Water Ice in the Lunar Polar Craters?
... the lunar poles"; (3) The vast quantities of hydrogen in lunar polar craters at extremely low temperatures might be in liquid or solid state now, easy to confuse with water ice ...the ...
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On the feasibility of exomoon detection via exoplanet phase curve spectral contrast
... the lunar terminator is determined by stellar flux, the resulting phase curve will possess a similar time variation to the reflective ...the lunar terminator is determined by planetary flux, then the ...
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