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Splat!
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About this work
Mars and the Earth run into debris in space regularly, and on our planet, meteors usually vaporize in the atmosphere. On Mars however, with a surface pressure 1/100th that of the Earth, the impactors generally make it to the surface. This particular impact took place on Mars sometime in the last 5 years. Although the crater is small, the rays of ejecta thrown out by the impact are easy to spot, stretching out almost a kilometer.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSplat!. NASA/JPL, 2021-06-25. Public domain. ID: PIA24694.
