Depth/diameter relations of fresh lunar craters - Revision from spacecraft data

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Nov 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974georl...1..291p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 1, Nov. 1974, p. 291-294. NASA-supported research.

Physics

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Apollo Flights, Depth Measurement, Lunar Craters, Lunar Topography, Photogrammetry, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Photography, Lunar Shadow, Spaceborne Photography

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The first systematic data from Apollo photogrammetry provide a high standard of accuracy for the depth/diameter relation of fresh lunar craters. Apollo depth-diameter results resemble results obtained by measuring shadows on Lunar Orbiter imagery. The depth-diameter distribution inflects at a crater diameter of 10 to 15 km. Lunar craters less than 15 km across are at least 50% deeper than older, telescopic data indicated, but larger craters are not much deeper. There is no marked depth-diameter difference between fresh upland and postmare craters. The new depth-diameter relation for small lunar craters resembles those of experimental and impact craters on earth.

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