exemplary-craters.md

Exemplary craters

Listed below some arbitrarily (or less) nobable craters per Solar System body.

Some are mentioned during the talks. You can search by name and zoom to them on the provided maps on the links below, in order to look at their morphology at your pace.

They are very barebone web maps. Please note the craters are a subset, deriving from the IAU/USGS Gazetteer. See notebooks for details on other, more complete, planetary crater databases.

Maps

Few maps with named crater visible and searchable:

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Moon
• Mars
• Callisto
• Ganymede
• Europa
• Titan

Few notable planetary craters

(no aim of completeness)

Moon

• Copernicus - see also:
  • https://github.com/europlanet-gmap/winter-school-2023/tree/main/moon
  • https://www.planetarymapping.eu/414/info-for-participants.html
• Komarov (close to Moscoviense, FFC)

Mercury

• Hokusai (long-range preserved ejecta / rays)
• Rachmaninoff
• Sveinsdottir (thrusted crater)

Venus

see also https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/vc/vchome.html

• Balch (faulted crater)
• Isabella (Crater with outflow)

Mars

• Mojave (fresh complex crater, possible Shergottite source)
• Tooting (lobate ejecta crater)
• Jezero (paleolake) - see also
  • https://github.com/europlanet-gmap/winter-school-2023/tree/main/mars
  • https://www.planetarymapping.eu/414/info-for-participants.html

Ganymede

• Isis (central pit crater)
• Kittu (rayed crater)

Callisto

• Asgard (multi-ring basin)
• Burr (rayed crater)
• Valhalla (multi-ring basin)

Europa

Titan

• Menrva (large crater, drainage network, sedimentary reworking)