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most citedThe Western Bulge of 162173 Ryugu Formed as a Result of a Rotationally Driven Deformation Process

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astro-ph.EP2026

Bundle adjustment of Hayabusa2's ONC images and controlled color mosaic map of Ryugu

Naoyuki Hirata, Eri Tatsumi, Mayumi Ichikawa +2

JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission successfully returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu in December 2020. It executed two touchdowns to collect the surface and subsurface materials, one clo…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

Secondary cratering from Rheasilvia as the possible origin of Vesta's equatorial troughs

Naoyuki Hirata

Asteroid 4 Vesta has a set of parallel troughs aligned with its equator. Although previous evaluations suggest that it is of shock fracturing tectonic origin, we propose that the e…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Particle deposition on the saturnian satellites from ephemeral cryovolcanism on Enceladus

Naoyuki Hirata, Hideaki Miyamoto, Adam P. Showman

The geologically active south pole of Enceladus generates a plume of micron-sized particles, which likely form Saturn's tenuous E-ring extending from the orbit of Mimas to Titan. I…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 3 cited

Timing of the faulting on the Wispy Terrain of Dione based on stratigraphic relationships with impact craters

Naoyuki Hirata

The trailing hemisphere of Dione is characterized by the Wispy Terrain, where it exhibits a hemispheric-scale network of extensional tectonic faults superposed on the moon's crater…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 8 cited

Rayed craters on Dione: Implication for the dominant surface alteration process

Naoyuki Hirata, Hideaki Miyamoto

From recently-acquired, high-resolution images obtained by the Cassini spacecraft, we examine the patterns and spatial distributions of rayed craters on Dione. We identify 29 rayed…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 32 cited

The spatial distribution of impact craters on Ryugu

Naoyuki Hirata, Tomokatsu Morota, Yuichiro Cho +40

Asteroid 162173 Ryugu has numerous craters. The initial measurement of impact craters on Ryugu, by Sugita et al. (2019), is based on Hayabusa2 ONC images obtained during the first…