Mars/Moon cratering rate ratio estimates

This article presents a method to adapt the lunar production function, i.e. the frequency of impacts with a given size of a formed crater as discussed by Neukum et al. (2001), to Mars. This requires to study the nature of cra ter-forming projectiles, the impact rate difference, and the scaling laws f or the impact crater formation. These old-standing questions are reviewed, and examples for the re-calculation of the production function from the moo n to Mars are given.