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Bang and Whoosh!
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This HiRISE image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about a decade) impact crater that triggered a slope streak. When the meteoroid hit the surface and exploded to make the crater, it also destabilized the slope and initiated this avalanche. The crater itself is only 5 meters across, but the streak it started is 1 kilometer long! Slope streaks are created when dry dust avalanches leave behind dark swaths on dusty Martian hills.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineBang and Whoosh!. NASA/JPL, 2018-06-11. Public domain. ID: PIA22513.
