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The surveyed area in Amazonis Planitia and an o...

The surveyed area in Amazonis Planitia and an overview of the main topographic features ...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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The surveyed area in Amazonis Planitia and an o...

The surveyed area in Amazonis Planitia and an overview of the main topographic features ...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) Scheme of the groups of light grooves in th...

(a) Scheme of the groups of light grooves in the area and their orientation. The groove ...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) Crater size analysis for five selected area...

(a) Crater size analysis for five selected areas: light areas of open fractures (OF1, OF...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) Selected examples of 150–350 m wide, degrad...

(a) Selected examples of 150–350 m wide, degraded craters in the study area. The crater ...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) Centrifugal accelerations acting on the ice...

(a) Centrifugal accelerations acting on the ice floes due to the rotation of Mars when f...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) Analysis of the terrain between the light g...

(a) Analysis of the terrain between the light grooves and the dark terrain. (b) HiRISE m...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Plates in the study area. (a) Example of small ...

Plates in the study area. (a) Example of small plates. The letters indicate a set of pla...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Formation of the sliding terrain due to ice pac...

Formation of the sliding terrain due to ice pack instability. In panel (a) the water is ...

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Size and shape measurement results from the 2D ...

Size and shape measurement results from the 2D and 3D analyses. 3D measurements (y-axis)...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Flowchart of the XCT image processing and the p...

Flowchart of the XCT image processing and the parameters computed for the 2D and 3D morp...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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The error—the difference between the computed (...

The error—the difference between the computed (Rcom) and reference (Rref) roundness valu...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Detection of corner circles for 2D roundness me...

Detection of corner circles for 2D roundness measurement. See text for a description of ...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Synthetic shapes in 2D (left) and 3D (right), w...

Synthetic shapes in 2D (left) and 3D (right), with roundness values ranging from 0.1 to ...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Processing steps for binarization and segmentat...

Processing steps for binarization and segmentation of each XCT image slice. The individu...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Detection of corner spheres for 3D roundness me...

Detection of corner spheres for 3D roundness measurement. See text for a description of ...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Size and shape parameters measured for 2D proje...

Size and shape parameters measured for 2D projected surfaces (left) and 3D volumes (right).

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Size and shape measurement results from the 2D ...

Size and shape measurement results from the 2D (x-axis) and 3D (y-axis) analyses of boul...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Residuals of morphological parameters measured ...

Residuals of morphological parameters measured at different particle resolutions (deq,2D...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Distribution of the (a) 3D roundness, (b) conve...

Distribution of the (a) 3D roundness, (b) convexity, (c) the b/a ratio, and (d) the c/a ...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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RMSE of 2D morphological parameter measurements...

RMSE of 2D morphological parameter measurements (y-axis) as a function of particle size,...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Images of the surface of asteroid (101955) Benn...

Images of the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu taken by OCAMS with the boulder outline...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Error between the sample and population average...

Error between the sample and population average as a function of n considering the worst...

Alexia Duchêne et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(a) The mass spectrum deconvolution results of ...

(a) The mass spectrum deconvolution results of the 5% CH4 experiment. The black outline ...

Zhengbo Yang et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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AFM images of three film samples produced with ...

AFM images of three film samples produced with different CH4 concentrations in the initi...

Zhengbo Yang et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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