The entropy of a cratered surface

Details The entropy of a cratered surface The entropy of a cratered surface

May 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980m%26p....22..323c&link_type=abstract

(Laboratorio di Astrofisica Spaziale di Frascati, European Workshop on Planetary Sciences, Rome, Italy, Apr. 23-27, 1979.) Moon

Computer Science

Information Theory

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Entropy, Mercury (Planet), Planetary Craters, Planetary Surfaces, Data Processing, Information Theory

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The paper describes the entropy of a cratered surface given by analogy with entropy of the information theory. The saturation, defined as the ratio between the area covered by craters of diameter D and the total observed area, is adopted as a measure of the probability of finding a portion of a planetary surface covered by craters of the given diameter D. The meaning of such a new function is compared with statistical approaches to the study of the cratering, and applications to Mercury are also discussed.

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