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Along the southern rim of Mars’ Hellas basin is a large crater, about 75 miles wide (over 120 kilometers), called Barnard. In a new paper, researchers have mapped it and the surrounding area in high ...

During the government shutdown on Monday, Oct. 6, a cohort of Planetary Science Institute science staff joined hundreds of others on Capitol Hill for the Save NASA Science Day of Action organized by ...

DISCOVERY OF ORIENTALE BASIN AND GENERAL MULTI-RING PHENOMENON Hartmann, W. K. and G. P. Kuiper 1962. Concentric Structures Surrounding Lunar basins Comm. Lunar and Planetary Lab., 1, 51-66.

Below you will find a text describing the basic principles behind the Planetary Science Institute system of utilizing crater counts and isochron diagrams in order to estimate crater retention ages of ...

It’s not always easy doing fieldwork at the Ries structure! Many of the quarries are completely overgrown by vegetation. At the top of this slope are some more crater-fill sediments. Lets scramble up ...

Figure 1. Artist’s reconstruction of a typical fireball. This view is based on reports of the Tunguska fireball in Siberia, 1908. Everyone has heard the term “fireball,” but what is a fireball, really ...

The trail is pretty rocky at this point on the rim. We’re actually walking through debris derived from the Kaibab Formation that was thrown out by the force of the impact. Notice in the photo above ...

PSI’s role: Two PSI senior scientists, Dr. William K. Hartmann and Dr. Donald R. Davis, were the first to suggest the leading modern hypothesis of the moon’s origin, in a paper published in 1975 in ...

The impact rocks below are examples of what you will recieve in our Impact Rock Kits. Each kit contains 10 samples of impact-altered or impact-generated rocks in a durable pelican case. All of the ...