Lunar Impact Craters: The Cratering Process

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1601p&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1601

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The high resolution images and topography from LRO LROC images provide an important data set to study impact cratering on the Moon at an unprecedented resolution. Those images can be used to refine the morphologic characteristics of impact craters to provide constraints on the cratering process. Two types of craters are of interest here: impacts of spacecraft and simple highlands craters containing melt. Craters formed by spacecraft impacts are important calibrations as the energy and properties of the impactor are known. Simple craters in the lunar highlands that contain melt have been identified with diameters as small as 200 m. These craters, which are rare, are interpreted to be formed by vertical, rather than the more common oblique impacts.

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