Katrin Krohn

TL;DR: Dawn observations confirm the large impact basin at Vesta's south pole and reveal evidence for an earlier, underlying large basin (Veneneia), underscoring Vesta’s unique role as a transitional solar system body.

TL;DR: The Moon is a complex differentiated planetary object and much remains to be explored and discovered, especially regarding the origin of the Moon, the history of the Earth-Moon system, and processes that have operated in the inner Solar System over the last 4.5 Ga.

TL;DR: Images from the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout lander show that rocks on asteroid Ryugu are similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, and close-up images of a rock reveal a dark matrix with small, bright, spectrally different inclusions, implying that it did not experience extensive aqueous alteration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived model functions for the crater production size-frequency distribution and chronology of the asteroids 951 Gaspra, 243 Ida, 21 Lutetia and 4 Vesta, based on a lunar-like crater production function and a lunarlike chronology with a smooth exponential decay in impact rate for the first ~1 Ga of Solar System history.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the Dawn Framing Camera's images and characterized the surfaces as composed of a central structure, either a possible depression (Vinalia) or a central dome (Cerealia), and a discontinuous mantling.