A Remote Sensing Perspective on Mass Wasting in Contrasting Planetary Environments: Cases of the Moon and Ceres

Mass wasting, as one of the most significant geomorphological processes, contributes immensely to planetary landscape evolution. The frequency and diversity mass wasting features on any body also put engineering constraints its robotic exploration. other Solar System bodies shares similar, although not identical, morphological characteristics with terrestrial counterpart, indicating a possible common nature for their formation. Thus, contrasting environmental conditions might help reveal effects atmosphere, subsurface fluids, accumulation/precipitation, seismicity vice versa. Their relative positions within our geophysical Moon dwarf planet Ceres are only extremely different from Earth’s but each too. smaller sizes coupled availability global-scale remote sensing datasets make them ideal candidates understand processes in widely environments. Through this concept article, we highlight several recent advances prospects using unprecedented details lunar Cerean processes. We start briefly discussing studies Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) data Dawn spacecraft Ceres. further identify available advancing understanding under reduced gravity scant (or absent) conclude article by suggesting future research directions.