The missing large impact craters on Ceres
Studying craters on atmosphere-less bodies can unlock information about planetesimal histories. Here, Marchi et al. present results from the NASA Dawn mission to Ceres showing that craters >100–150 km in size are largely absent, and find that Ceres’ internal evolution is responsible for their abs...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-07-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12257 |