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Mars/Moon Cratering Rate Ratio Estimates

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Chronology and Evolution of Mars

Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI ((SSSI,volume 12))

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This article presents a method to adapt the lunar production function, i.e. the frequency of impacts with a given size of a formed crater as discussed by Neukum et al. (2001), to Mars. This requires to study the nature of crater-forming projectiles, the impact rate difference, and the scaling laws for the impact crater formation. These old-standing questions are reviewed, and examples for the re-calculation of the production function from the moon to Mars are given.

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  1. Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 38/6, Moscow, Russia, 117939

    Boris A. Ivanov

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Ivanov, B.A. (2001). Mars/Moon Cratering Rate Ratio Estimates. In: Kallenbach, R., Geiss, J., Hartmann, W.K. (eds) Chronology and Evolution of Mars. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1035-0_4

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