Boeddicker_(crater)

Boeddicker (crater)

Boeddicker (crater)

Crater on Mars

Boeddicker is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 15° south latitude and 197.7° west longitude. It is 109 km in diameter and was named after Otto Boeddicker, a German astronomer (1853–1937).[1][2]

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Boeddicker Crater was discussed as a landing site for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. It was one of 25 from a list of 185 after the FirstLanding Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, January 24–25, 2001, at NASA Ames Research Center.[3][4][5]

Boeddicker Crater has a uniformly sloped crater floor which tracks with a gradational albedo change, similar to Gusev crater to the east. Some researchers have hypothesized that this could be the result of aeolian deposition.[6]

  • Boeddicker Crater Floor, as seen by HiRISE.
  • West side of Boeddicker Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
  • Enlargement of previous image showing dunes on floor of Boeddicker Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
  • A topographic map showing Boaddicker crater and the central hill which rises about 1,800 meters off the crater floor.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | Boeddicker". usgs.gov. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Google Mars".
  3. [3]
    Golombek M. et al. (2001) LPS XXXII, abs. #1234.
  4. [4]
    http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/mer Archived 2016-12-08 at the Wayback Machine and http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/mer2003.
  5. [5]
    Golombek, M., J. Grant, T. Parker, T. Schofield, D. Kass, P. Knocke, R. Roncoli, N. Bridges, S. Anderson, J. Crisp, A. Haldemann, M. Adler, W. Lee, S. Squyres, R. Arvidson, M. Carr, C. Weitz. 2002. DOWNSELECTION OF LANDING SITES FOR THE MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII 1245.pdf
  6. [6]
    Roth, LE; Saunders, RS; Downs, GS; Schubert, G. "Radar altimetry of the Martian cratered highlands". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 19: 834.


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