Fig. 2: The depth-to-diameter ratios of large craters and the spatial density of all craters increase with distance from Shoemaker crater. | Nature Astronomy

Fig. 2: The depth-to-diameter ratios of large craters and the spatial density of all craters increase with distance from Shoemaker crater.

From: Seismic resurfacing of 433 Eros indicative of a highly dissipative interior for large near-Earth asteroids

Fig. 2

a, The geometric d/D of craters increases as a function of distance from the centre of Shoemaker crater for craters with D > 500 m, up to a distance of ~10–12 km. The red curve shows the moving average (median) of d/D at a bin size of 0.8 km. The vertical dashed black line marks one Shoemaker crater radius. b, The area average crater density, R, of craters with D = 500–2,000 m also increases as a function of surface (geodesic, red curve with triangles) distance from the centre of Shoemaker crater. c, The same as b, except for straight-line (Euclidean, grey curve with circles, similar to fig. 2b of ref. 25) distance. The shaded region in each subpanel represents the 1-sigma standard deviation centred on each bin.

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