Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ Doublet craters form when two objects (such as a binary asteroid) impact a surface simultaneously? We use the frequency and size of observed doublets to estimate the population of binary asteroids, which is important for planetary defense!

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ that craters are so circular because the impacts happen at such high speeds that they behave like point-source explosions? This is why the Sedan crater, formed by a nuclear explosion at the Nevada test site, looks so similar to regular impact craters! Happy 4th 🇺🇸

Crater Fact Friday ☄️ The Yarrabubba impact structure in Western Australia is one of Earth's oldest preserved craters (2.2 Gya!). It is likely the impact struck an ice sheet, releasing water vapor into the atmosphere. This could have contributed to rapid climate change and the end of Snowball Earth!

One more day to submit your abstract for this year's Planetary Crater Consortium meeting in Flagstaff, AZ! Meeting is July 15-17, abstracts are due June 17 (tomorrow). Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Come join us in Flagstaff!

Hey you! Do you like impacts craters? Well, great news. Just over a month left to submit an abstract to our annual meeting! Come chat about all things craters! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Upcoming PCC Meeting July 15-17 at the USGS-Flagstaff! Abstract Submission (deadline June 17): forms.gle/APaNS8G7ycJx... Registration: forms.gle/RpGWUMaK6qdk... We welcome submission for all things craters Observational work, planetary remote sensing, modeling, field work, lab experiments, etc.!

Upcoming PCC Meeting July 15-17 at the USGS-Flagstaff! Abstract Submission (deadline June 17): forms.gle/APaNS8G7ycJx... Registration: forms.gle/RpGWUMaK6qdk... We welcome submission for all things craters Observational work, planetary remote sensing, modeling, field work, lab experiments, etc.!

Did you know impact craters can provide us a window into the subsurface? Occator Crater on Ceres contains bright material, remnants of a salty brine, that migrated from the deep subsurface reservoir to the surface. The size and energy of the Occator impact provided a pathway for this migration!

CRATERS Images from Landsat science.nasa.gov/mission/land...

Happy Earth Day! The Earth has hundreds of confirmed impact craters, which provide a key reference point for impact cratering research. Field and laboratory studies of terrestrial impact craters are a key part of how we learn about craters, including how they form and decay through time.

Wooo big basins!

Orientale, the multi-ring impact basin that's a focus of Artemis II, is unique as the youngest of the Moon's large impact basins! Orientale's multiple rings are thought to have formed from deformation of the lunar crust and upper mantle in response to impact, generating circumferential ring faults.

Crater Fact Friday: there's lots of unusual types of craters across the Solar System! One of our favorite types is pedestal craters, which have ejecta blankets that sit above the surrounding terrain, forming a raised platform (like a pedestal). Many of these can be found on Mars.

One of the major focuses of future Artemis missions is landing on the lunar south pole near permanently shadowed craters. These types of craters are unique, as their locations near the poles of the Moon mean that - as the name implies - some portion of their interior is always in darkness.

Whose excited for the Artemis II launch?! 🚀

Need to catch up on #ArtemisII science ahead of today's launch attempt to the MOON? See our explainer at @nature.com 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Okay what about Linńe!?

What a beautiful looking impact basin on the top right! (Her name is Gertrude if you’re wondering!) This is the biggest impact crater of the Uranian satellites, measuring at ~325 km in diameter.

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ impact cratering is the most ubiquitous surface process in the solar system? We see impact craters on almost every solid surface body (with *maybe* the exception of Io!) Can you guess where these impact craters formed?

The Planetary Crater Consortium (PCC) was originally established in 1998 as the Mars Crater Consortium. In 2010 PCC was formed as we aimed to facilitate collaborations between planetary scientists interested in any aspect of impact craters on solar system bodies (planets🌏moons🌗 asteroids☄️ comets!)

Hello! 👋 We are the Planetary Cratering Consortium, a community-led organization of planetary scientists interested in all aspects of impact cratering. Follow us for up-to-date info about cratering news, fun crater facts, and upcoming meetings ☄️