The Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube

E Dotto, JDP Deshapriya, I Gai, PH Hasselmann… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a
satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 2022. Ground-based observations …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting Vietnam War bomb craters in declassified historical KH-9 satellite imagery

P Barthelme, E Darbyshire, D Spracklen… - Science of Remote …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thousands of people are injured every year from explosive remnants of war which include
unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned ordnance. UXO has negative long-term …

Ballistic sedimentation of impact crater ejecta: Implications for the provenance of lunar samples and the resurfacing effect of ejecta on the lunar surface

M Xie, T Liu, A Xu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A clear understanding of ballistic sedimentation is critical for interpreting the evolution of the
lunar surface and the provenance of lunar samples. Quantitative models have been …

Untrackable distal ejecta on planetary surfaces

R Xu, Z Xiao, F Luo, Y Wang, J Cui - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Impact ejecta are important references to establish regional and global stratigraphy of
planetary bodies. Canonical views advocate radial distributions of distal ejecta with respect …

Performance of lunar regolith shield under meteoroid impact: Uncertainties of a numerical prediction

A Verdino, O Arena, O Bottiglieri, F Cafaro, E Dini - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The protection of the future lunar base from radiation, thermal stresses and impacts of
meteoroids can be achieved by several options, generally consisting in a shielding system …

[HTML][HTML] Geological mapping and chronology of lunar landing sites: Apollo 12

W Iqbal, H Hiesinger, CH van der Bogert - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
The lunar cratering chronology is fundamentally important, because it is not just used to
determine ages for unsampled lunar surfaces, but is commonly applied to other planetary …

Abundance and size-frequency distribution of boulders in Linné crater's ejecta (Moon)

M Pajola, R Pozzobon, A Lucchetti, S Rossato… - Planetary and Space …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the abundances and the size-frequency distributions (SFD) of the
ejected boulders surrounding the Linnè crater, located on the Moon's Mare Serenitatis …

Ray systems and craters generated by the impact of nonspherical projectiles

F Pacheco-Vázquez - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The impact of a spherical projectile on an evened-out granular bed generates a uniform
ejecta of material and a crater with a raised circular rim. Recently, Sabuwala et al.[Phys …

The effect of projectile nose shape on the formation and expansion of impact-induced ejecta for sand target

H Zhang, R Chi, M Sun, W Cao, W An, D Hu, B Pang… - Acta Astronautica, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the ejecting behavior of granular materials under impact conditions is of vital
important for the asteroid sampling and defense. During the impact and penetration stages …

Experimental investigations of crater formation as a result of high-velocity impacts on sand bed

R Mazur, M Beczek, J Janiszewski, W Koperski… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The formation of craters is an important issue in the investigations of the surface of the earth
and other planets. The aim of the study was to check whether the different textures of sand …