Meteoroids often break apart into fragments when they pass through planetary atmospheres. When those fragments impact the surface of planets, they form a group of craters called a crater cluster. […]
The wealth of lunar spacecraft data collected over the last several decades allows for global searches for resources on the Moon. A study led by Essam Heggy from the University […]
What to do during the confinement? Become a crater hunter! Participate in the search for new impact craters with Vigie-Cratère, the third component of the Vigie-Ciel citizen science project. During […]
Ring-mold craters are a special kind of impact crater that looks like the ring molds used in baking. So far, they have been identified on Mars and are believed to […]
Recent modeling by Steve Mojzsis and colleagues suggests that the large volume of impactors during the late accretion phase almost entirely resurfaced Mercury. This material induced extensive melting (~58%) of […]
In an effort to compare the relative rates of landform evolution on the Moon and Mercury, Caleb Fassett of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and his team measured the depth-to-diameter […]
The two brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images […]
Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. These images, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 […]
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury’s north […]
Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. When viewed with the human eye, the giant asteroid Vesta, which was the object of scrutiny by the Dawn spacecraft from […]
Craters once brim-full with sediments and water have long since drained dry, but traces of their former lives as muddy lakes cling on in the martian desert. The images were […]