Despite their global importance, little is known about the few
existing examples of impacts into marine environments and icy
targets. They are among the least understood and studied parts of
impact crater geology. The icy impacts are also of great importance
in understanding the developments of the outer planets and their
satellites such as Mars or Europa. Furthermore, the impact
mechanisms, crater formation and collapse, melt production and the
ejecta distribution are scarcely known for impact on targets other
than the "classical" solid silicates of the continental crust. The
reaction of water and ice to impacts clearly deserves a more
thorough study. The understanding of impact effects and
consequences in the case of aqueous hits, soft sediments and icy
targets has not been thoroughly explored and comprises the main
focus of this book.
A number of papers in the field of hypervelocity impacts on ice
are included. These cover a review of available literature in the
field of laboratory studies of such impacts, large impact
structures on Titan, predicting impact cratering on a comet
nucleus, and a novel report on the survival of bacteria fired at
hypervelocity into icy surfaces. This latter paper is concerned
with astrobiology and in particular Panspermia (natural migration
of life through space).
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