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A New Impact Site in the Southern Middle Latitudes
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Over 500 new impact events have been detected from before-and-after images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, mostly from MRO's Context Camera, with a HiRISE followup. Those new craters that expose shallow ice are of special interest, especially at latitudes where not previously detected, to better map the ice distribution. We hope to find ice at relatively low latitudes both for understanding recent climate change and as a resource for possible future humans on Mars.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA New Impact Site in the Southern Middle Latitudes. NASA/JPL, 2017-04-05. Public domain. ID: PIA21578.
