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Colorful Rocks Exposed in a Fresh Impact Crater
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This image covers two overlapping impact craters, one approximately 4 kilometers in diameter and a second that is about 3 kilometers wide. The smaller crater has a sharply defined rim that interrupts the rim of the larger one, indicating that the smaller crater formed more recently. Rocks of several different colors are exposed in this crater's walls; they are undergoing erosion into finer-grained debris that travels downwards and accumulates in small fans on the crater floor.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineColorful Rocks Exposed in a Fresh Impact Crater. NASA/JPL, 2022-08-31. Public domain. ID: PIA25503.