The Neukum Crater on Mars - Martian crater named after German planetary scientist

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The Neukum Crater on Mars - Martian crater named after German planetary scientist


On 29 September 2017 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a 102 kilometre-wide impact crater in the southern highlands of Mars after the German physicist and planetary scientist Gerhard Neukum, who passed away in 2014. During his time as a researcher at the DLR sites in Oberpfaffenhofen and Berlin-Adlershof between 1988 and 1996, Neukum developed the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), and was the Principal Investigator (PI) for this camera experiment between 2003 and 2013. On 10 January 2004, the HRSC, which is operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft, transmitted its first image data to Earth, and to this day it continues to send us high-quality images of the surface of Mars.

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