The morphology of Mercury's Caloris basin as seen in MESSENGER stereo topographic models

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 230-238

  Oberst, Jürgen ^a   Preusker, Frank ^a   Phillips, Roger J ^b   Watters, Thomas R ^c   Head, James W ^d   Zuber, Maria T ^e   Solomon, Sean C ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Geological processes; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955768506     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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