
The enigmatic asphaltic (bituminous) impact touchdown phenomenon


One of the asphaltic (bituminous) impact airburst touchdown fields. The formation process is so far unknown, but a kind of pyrolysis of organic matter at elevated impact tempatures is probable. Google Earth.
The crater fields that we invesigated with the Digital Terrain Model
All about the crater clusters, sand boils, extended wavy deformations, and Fourier Power Spectra analyses are presented in the LPSC (Lunar & Planetary Science Conference) 2022 poster:
















20 m and 0.2 m scale bars.