HHG
HHG - Crater survey tool for crater counting
Rationale behind the name of the project
Crater counting is a method for estimating the age of a planet's surface. The method is based upon the assumptions that a new surface forms with zero impact craters, and that impact craters accumulate at some constant rate. The method has been calibrated using the ages of samples returned from the Moon [1], and then used on several planetary surfaces.
Crater counting thus represent an important base for reconstruct the geologic evolution of a planetary surface, and to support this or that theory.
Thus the Monty Python's Holy Hand Granade sketch seemed the perfect name for the project, indeed.
[1] Hartmann, W.K., 2005. Martian cratering 8: Isochron refinement and the chronology of Mars. Icarus, 174, 294-320.
## Authors The aim of this project of conquer the world comes from mixed ideas and code from Dr. Alessandro Frigeri and Yann Chemin. If you are willing to jump into the project, the doors are open!