Abstract:Impact crater populations provide a record of the bombardment history of a planetary body. These craters reveal an intense bombardment history on Earth's Moon that included significant, large impacts, at least four of which created craters larger than ∼1000 km across more than 3.7 Ga. Scaling the lunar impact crater history to Mars using generally well-established scaling rules indicates Mars should have ∼40–80 similarly sized, ancient craters. However, Mars has roughly seven. This is a nontrivial mismatch bet… Show more
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