TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - The geologic mapping of Ceres
AU - Williams, David
AU - Buczkowski, Debra L.
AU - Mest, Scott C.
AU - Scully, Jennifer E.C.
AU - Thomas, Platz
AU - Thomas, Kneissl
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Corey Fortezzo, Brent Garry, and Editor Michael Bland for helpful reviews. We thank Carle Pieters, Ralf Jaumann, Chris Russell, Carol Raymond, and all the members of the Dawn instrument, Science, and Flight Teams for their work operating the spacecraft and returning and processing data of Vesta. DAW, DLB, and JECS were funded from the NASA Dawn Project. SCM was funded by the Dawn at Ceres Guest Investigator Program. The data used in this paper are available from the website http://dawndata.igpp.ucla.edu .
Funding Information:
We thank Corey Fortezzo, Brent Garry, and Editor Michael Bland for helpful reviews. We thank Carle Pieters, Ralf Jaumann, Chris Russell, Carol Raymond, and all the members of the Dawn instrument, Science, and Flight Teams for their work operating the spacecraft and returning and processing data of Vesta. DAW, DLB, and JECS were funded from the NASA Dawn Project. SCM was funded by the Dawn at Ceres Guest Investigator Program. The data used in this paper are available from the website http://dawndata.igpp.ucla.edu.
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Geologic Mapping of Ceres Special Issue of Icarus, which contains papers that include geological maps of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres derived from NASA's Dawn mission data. These maps were made to support analyses conducted by the Dawn Science Team during the Ceres Nominal Mission (March 2015–June 2016). In this paper we review knowledge of Ceres gained through the Dawn mission, discuss the goals, data, and methods used in our geologic mapping campaign, including the mapping approach using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. We also review the global geologic context of Ceres, and summarize the mapping results described in more detail in the papers in this Special Issue. We conclude this paper with a review of the applied lessons learned from the Vesta mapping campaign. In addition, we discuss new lessons learned from Ceres mapping, which leads to new recommendations for conducting mapping campaigns as part of planetary spacecraft nominal missions.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Geologic Mapping of Ceres Special Issue of Icarus, which contains papers that include geological maps of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres derived from NASA's Dawn mission data. These maps were made to support analyses conducted by the Dawn Science Team during the Ceres Nominal Mission (March 2015–June 2016). In this paper we review knowledge of Ceres gained through the Dawn mission, discuss the goals, data, and methods used in our geologic mapping campaign, including the mapping approach using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. We also review the global geologic context of Ceres, and summarize the mapping results described in more detail in the papers in this Special Issue. We conclude this paper with a review of the applied lessons learned from the Vesta mapping campaign. In addition, we discuss new lessons learned from Ceres mapping, which leads to new recommendations for conducting mapping campaigns as part of planetary spacecraft nominal missions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.05.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019541883
SN - 0019-1035
VL - 316
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Icarus
JF - Icarus
ER -