Mercury crater statistics from MESSENGER flybys: Implications for stratigraphy and resurfacing history

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1960-1967

  Strom, Robert G ^a   Banks, Maria E ^b   Chapman, Clark R ^c   Fassett, Caleb I ^d   Forde, Jeffrey A ^e   Head III, James W ^d   Merline, William J ^c   Prockter, Louise M ^f   Solomon, Sean C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Mercury; MESSENGER; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

CRATER POPULATION; CRATERING; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; IMPACTORS; INTERCRATER PLAINS; LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT; MESSENGER; ORBITAL PHASE; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; VOLCANIC FLUX; VOLCANIC RESURFACING; VOLCANISM;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 79956343849     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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