Description: Our exploration of Mars has revealed a world as fascinating as Earth, with a changing climate, giant volcanoes, former oceans, polar ice caps, and numerous impact craters. This book provides a comprehensive summary of the morphology and distribution of meteorite craters on Mars, and the wealth of information these can provide on the crustal structure, surface geology, climate and evolution of the planet. The chapters present highly illustrated case studies of landforms associated with impact craters to highlight their morphological diversity, using high-resolution images and topographic data to compare these features with those on other bodies in the Solar System. Including research questions to inspire future work, this book will be valuable for researchers and graduate students interested in impact craters (both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial) and Mars geology, as well as planetary geologists, planetary climatologists and astrobiologists.
Brief description: Peter Mouginis-Mark is a planetary geomorphologist and is currently an Emeritus Researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and the Director of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Sustainability Initiative. He specialises in impact craters and volcanoes and has published over 140 peer-reviewed research papers on these topics.