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Region-wise statistics of pixels illuminated in...

Region-wise statistics of pixels illuminated in at least 1 (red), 2 (yellow), or 3 (gree...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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LOLA’s effective resolution (adapted from M. K....

LOLA’s effective resolution (adapted from M. K. Barker et al. 2023) in the south polar r...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Left: 200 m × 500 m cutout of a maximum-illumin...

Left: 200 m × 500 m cutout of a maximum-illumination mosaic before and after bundle adju...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Standard deviation of elevation (top left) and ...

Standard deviation of elevation (top left) and slope (top right) for a small ensemble of...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Maximum-illumination plots for the Faustini Rim...

Maximum-illumination plots for the Faustini Rim A and the Connecting Ridge Extension reg...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Example close-ups of slope maps derived from LD...

Example close-ups of slope maps derived from LDEMs and SDEMs. Gaps between LOLA tracks a...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Flowchart outlining our automated SfS pipeline,...

Flowchart outlining our automated SfS pipeline, from identifying images overlapping the ...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Left: elevation differences between our SDEMs a...

Left: elevation differences between our SDEMs and either the LOLA point cloud (LOLA_z) o...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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SDEM renderings at 5 m pix−1 show higher fideli...

SDEM renderings at 5 m pix−1 show higher fidelity to LROC NAC images than their LDEM cou...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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We assess the LDEM elevation and slope uncertai...

We assess the LDEM elevation and slope uncertainty maps by normalizing the SDEM–LDEM res...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Composite color map of LDEM (left) and SDEM (ri...

Composite color map of LDEM (left) and SDEM (right) terrain roughness at different basel...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Left: rms of slope differences between LDEMs an...

Left: rms of slope differences between LDEMs and SDEMs at different baselines (median an...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Crop of the maximum-illumination orthomosaic fr...

Crop of the maximum-illumination orthomosaic from the de Gerlache Rim 2 region, showing ...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Elevation differences between several stereo DT...

Elevation differences between several stereo DTMs and SDEMs relative to the 5 m pix–1 LD...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Example from the de Gerlache Rim region showing...

Example from the de Gerlache Rim region showing the effect of allowing SFS to downsample...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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The uniform 5 m pix−1 effective resolution of t...

The uniform 5 m pix−1 effective resolution of the SDEM also results in more detailed ter...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Horizontal shifts between the hillshades of B24...

Horizontal shifts between the hillshades of B24 and our DEM in stereographic x and y, re...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Example at de Gerlache–Kocher Massif (minx = −1...

Example at de Gerlache–Kocher Massif (minx = −123.4, miny = −66.1, maxx = −103.4, maxy =...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Slope maps (A, B) and VRM roughness maps (C, D)...

Slope maps (A, B) and VRM roughness maps (C, D) derived from our SDEM at different basel...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Elevation residuals between CE2_GRAS_DEM_20m_N0...

Elevation residuals between CE2_GRAS_DEM_20m_N001_87S000W_A and the LDEM over the Malape...

Stefano Bertone et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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HC3N J = 12–11 emission. Upper left panel: mome...

HC3N J = 12–11 emission. Upper left panel: moment-0 map of HC3N emission. Top center pan...

Steven C. Wampler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 2

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HC5N emission detected using multiple analysis ...

HC5N emission detected using multiple analysis techniques. Top panels: moment-0 maps of ...

Steven C. Wampler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 2

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Comparison of HC3N (left panel) and HC5N (middl...

Comparison of HC3N (left panel) and HC5N (middle panel) column densities from chemical m...

Steven C. Wampler et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 2

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Pseudobolometric LCs of the STELLA models m6W1 ...

Pseudobolometric LCs of the STELLA models m6W1 (purple), m7W1 (green), m8W2 (gray), m2W1...

Alexandra Kozyreva et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 2

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Pseudobolometric LCs of SN 2021bnw (circles) zo...

Pseudobolometric LCs of SN 2021bnw (circles) zoomed in at the early epoch, including add...

Alexandra Kozyreva et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 2

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