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A Young, Fresh Crater in Hellespontus
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This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft is of a morphologically fresh and simple impact crater in the Hellespontus region. At 1.3 kilometers in diameter, this unnamed crater is only slightly larger than Arizona's Barringer (aka Meteor) Crater, by about 200 meters. Note the simple bowl shape and the raised crater rim. Rock and soil excavated out of the crater by the impacting meteor -- called ejecta -- forms the ejecta deposit.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA Young, Fresh Crater in Hellespontus. NASA/JPL, 2016-01-14. Public domain. ID: PIA20340.
