The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Geologic Mapping of Vesta Special Issue/Section of Icarus, which includes several papers containing geologic maps of the surface of Vesta made to support data analysis conducted by the Dawn Science Team during the Vesta Encounter (July 2011–September 2012). In this paper we briefly discuss pre-Dawn knowledge of Vesta, provide the goals of our geologic mapping campaign, discuss the methodologies and materials used for geologic mapping, review the global geologic context of Vesta, discuss the challenges of mapping the geology of Vesta as a small airless body, and describe the content of the papers in this Special Issue/Section. We conclude with a discussion of lessons learned from our quadrangle-based mapping effort and provide recommendations for conducting mapping campaigns as part of planetary spacecraft nominal missions.
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- Introduction: The Geologic Mapping of Vesta
- Williams, David (Author)
- Yingst, R. Aileen (Author)
- Garry, W. Brent (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
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Digital object identifier: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.001
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Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value0019-1035
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NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in ICARUS. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in ICARUS, Volume 244, December 2014, Pages 1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.001.
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David A. Williams, R. Aileen Yingst, W. Brent Garry, Introduction: The geologic mapping of Vesta, Icarus, Volume 244, December 2014, Pages 1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.001.