FORMATION OF SECONDARY EJECTA CRATERS AND
THEIR EFFECTS ON PLANETARY CHRONOLOGY
Purpose: Our team, expert on issues of impact
cratering and Mars chronology, is completing
data collection and numerical simulation
on the spatial and size distribution of secondary impact craters around
Martian crater named ‘’Gratteri’’ in order to
constrain (a) crater counting techniques used to measure Martian chronology,
and (b) launch conditions of Martian meteorites.
Team members (* team leader);
Bill Hartmann, Planetary
Science Institute,
Olga Popova*, Institute
for Dynamics of Geospheres,
Cathy Quantin, Laboratoire
des Sciences de la Terre (UCBL, CNRS),
Lyon, France
ISSI
proposal :
Download here
Agenda of the first meeting :
6-10 May
View of Gratteri crater,
surrounded by secondaries:
A)
THEMIS IR mosaic showing the rays of Gratteri Crater
B)
MOC image of
the secondary craters inside the rays at
The background image of the web-page is an HIRISE
image of the floor of Gratteri crater. The spatial
resolution is
