Sesquinary catenae on the Martian satellite Phobos from reaccretion of escaping ejecta

The origin of the numerous linear grooves and craters that litter the Martian moon Phobos' surface remains enigmatic. Here, by modelling low-velocity escaping ejecta from impacts to Phobos, the authors show that several of these chains can be explained by reimpacting sesquinary ejecta shortly a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Nayak, E. Asphaug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12591