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Characteristics of the different geological uni...

Characteristics of the different geological units with respect to albedo, morphology, an...

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Our new geologic map is based on several combin...

Our new geologic map is based on several combined datasets (see Section 2.1), including ...

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Correlation chart for units and volcanic and te...

Correlation chart for units and volcanic and tectonic events in the Mare Vaporum region....

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Geologic map of the Mare Vaporum region at a ma...

Geologic map of the Mare Vaporum region at a mapping scale of 1:125,000.

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Thorium map of D. J. Lawrence et al. (2007) wit...

Thorium map of D. J. Lawrence et al. (2007) with the approximate Terrane boundaries afte...

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(a) Overview of the identified volcanic and tec...

(a) Overview of the identified volcanic and tectonic features marked in the geologic map...

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Comparison of the surface composition of TiO2 a...

Comparison of the surface composition of TiO2 and FeO of each unit. The Nectarian units ...

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Distribution of the titanium (a) and iron (b) a...

Distribution of the titanium (a) and iron (b) abundance (wt%) in the study region. Shown...

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Landing site risk assessment can be supported b...

Landing site risk assessment can be supported by using (a) a slope map, derived from the...

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Asteroid geometry upon the first major fragment...

Asteroid geometry upon the first major fragmentation event (top) and the later debris cl...

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Kinetic energy and energy deposition rate as a ...

Kinetic energy and energy deposition rate as a function of altitude for impact-processed...

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Altitude history of fully intact (left) and imp...

Altitude history of fully intact (left) and impact-processed (right) simulations with th...

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Kinetic energy and energy deposition rate as a ...

Kinetic energy and energy deposition rate as a function of altitude for fully intact pla...

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Particle distributions for a 3D impact (left) a...

Particle distributions for a 3D impact (left) and a planar-2D airburst simulation (right...

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Result of the damage transfer process between t...

Result of the damage transfer process between the cross section of the kinetic impact in...

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Result of the damage transfer algorithm of the ...

Result of the damage transfer algorithm of the three-dimensional Allende case. White par...

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Damage state at 500 ms (top) and 5 s (bottom) f...

Damage state at 500 ms (top) and 5 s (bottom) for Aba Panu (left), Allende (middle-left)...

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Normalized kinetic energy (left) and energy dep...

Normalized kinetic energy (left) and energy deposition rate (right) as a function of alt...

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Visualization of the ranges of peak overpressur...

Visualization of the ranges of peak overpressure experienced at the surface with half-en...

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Visualization of the peak overpressure ranges e...

Visualization of the peak overpressure ranges experienced at the surface as contours wit...

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Kinetic energy as a function of altitude for va...

Kinetic energy as a function of altitude for various asteroid materials.

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Energy deposition rates as a function of altitu...

Energy deposition rates as a function of altitude for various asteroid materials.

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Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and...

Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and impact-processed (right) asteroid for Al...

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Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and...

Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and impact-processed (right) asteroid for Ch...

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Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and...

Altitude history of the fully intact (left) and impact-processed (right) asteroid for Ta...

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