Our exploration of Mars has revealed a world as fascinating as Earth, with a changing climate, giant volcanoes, former oceans, polar ice caps, and numerous impact craters. This book provides a comprehensive summary of the morphology and distribution of meteorite craters on Mars, and the wealth of information these can provide on the crustal structure, surface geology, climate and evolution of the planet. The chapters present highly illustrated case studies of landforms associated with impact craters to highlight their morphological diversity, using high-resolution images and topographic data to compare these features with those on other bodies in the Solar System. Including research questions to inspire future work, this book will be valuable for researchers and graduate students interested in impact craters (both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial) and Mars geology, as well as planetary geologists, planetary climatologists and astrobiologists.
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Peter Mouginis-Mark is a planetary geomorphologist and is currently an Emeritus Researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and the Director of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Sustainability Initiative. He specialises in impact craters and volcanoes and has published over 140 peer-reviewed research papers on these topics. Joseph Boyce is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Hawaii and was previously a program scientist on fifteen space missions from 1979-2002, many of which were to Mars, including the first Mars lander (Viking) and the first Mars rover (Pathfinder). He received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal in 2002. Asteroid 1978 VO 5 BOYCE is named in honour of his scientific work on impact craters.
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University of Hawaii, Manoa
University of Hawaii
1. Impact Crater Formation; 2. Morphology of Craters Throughout the Solar System; 3. Knowing Mars; 4. Fresh Crater Interiors; 5. Modified Crater Interiors; 6. Mars Crater Exterior Features - Major Types of Ejecta Blanket; 7. Mars Crater Exterior Features - Other Ejecta Attributes; 8. Ejecta Flow Features; 9. Remaining Puzzles Concerning Martian Craters; Index; Appendix.
