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Escape from Mars
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows one of millions of small (10s of meters in diameter) craters and their ejecta material that dot the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. The small craters were likely formed when high-speed blocks of rock were thrown out by a much larger impact (about 10-kilometers in diameter) and fell back to the ground. Some of these blocks may actually escape Mars, which is how we get samples in the form of meteorites that fall to Earth.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEscape from Mars. NASA/JPL, 2017-07-10. Public domain. ID: PIA21769.
