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Automated crater detection on Mars using deep learning
Lee, Christopher
Impact crater cataloging is an important tool in the study of the geological history of planetary bodies in the Solar System, including dating of surface features and geologic mapping of surface processes. Catalogs of impact craters have been created by a diverse set of methods over many decades, including using visible or near infra-red imagery a…
A New South Polar Digital Terrain Model of Mars from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA Mars Express
Muller, Jan-Peter; Putri, Alfiah Rizky Diana; Sidiropoulos, Panagiotis +2 more
The first high-resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the entire South Pole of Mars has been produced. A modified version (Kim and Muller, 2009) of a NASA-VICAR-based pipeline developed by DLR (German Aerospace Centre) and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) has been employed with image matching based on the Gotcha (Gruen-Otto-Chau) algorithm (Shin…
Origin of Phobos grooves: Testing the Stickney Crater ejecta model
Head, James W.; Ramsley, Kenneth R.
The model of Wilson and Head (1989, 2005, 2015) interprets the grooves of Phobos as the product of sliding, rolling, and bouncing ejecta boulders from the Stickney Crater impact. To test the model of Wilson and Head (1989, 2005, 2015) we apply a dynamical physics simulation to a three-dimensional shape model of Phobos and systematically assess six…
Automated reconstruction of subsurface interfaces in Promethei Lingula near the Martian south pole by using SHARAD data
Muller, J. -P.; Xiong, S.
Subsurface layers are preserved in polar regions on Mars, which are considered to be a record of past climate changes on Mars. Orbital radar instruments like the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmit radar signals to Mars and receive a set of signals returned from interfaces having a contrast in dielectric prop…
The 2016 UK Space Agency Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI)
Coates, A. J.; Butcher, F. E. G.; Fawdon, P. +50 more
The 2016 Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI) was a Mars rover field trial run by the UK Space Agency in association with the Canadian Space Agency's 2015/2016 Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment mission. MURFI had over 50 participants from 15 different institutions around the UK and abroad. The objectives of MURFI were to develop experi…
An orbit-based remote sensing geological assessment of the CanMars Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment (MSRAD) landing site situated in the Henry Mountains Basin, near Hanksville, Utah
Tornabene, Livio L.; Battler, Melissa; Choe, Byung-Hun +1 more
Mars-analogous and relevant terrestrial- and orbit-based remote sensing datasets were gathered and used for both an in and out of simulation geological assessment of a pre-selected "landing site" for the CanMars, Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment (MSRAD), and Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI) analogue missions. The analogue mission …