Topography

This section provides examples of how to use the Surface and Morphology components of Cratermaker to model the surface topography of craters and the topographic evolution of cratered surfaces.

Create a crater and ejecta profile with the “basicmoon” morphology model

Create a crater and ejecta profile with the "basicmoon" morphology model

Create a shaded topographic representation of a crater

Create a shaded topographic representation of a crater

Plot the ray intensity map for a crater

Plot the ray intensity map for a crater

Topographic Diffusion

Topographic Diffusion