Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

The missing large impact craters on Ceres

  • S. Marchi,
  • A. I. Ermakov,
  • C. A. Raymond,
  • R. R. Fu,
  • D. P. O’Brien,
  • M. T. Bland,
  • E. Ammannito,
  • M. C. De Sanctis,
  • T. Bowling,
  • P. Schenk,
  • J. E. C. Scully,
  • D. L. Buczkowski,
  • D. A. Williams,
  • H. Hiesinger,
  • C. T. Russell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12257
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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 absence.