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Utopia Planitia Crater
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Utopia Planitia Crater

NASA / JPL · 2023-12-18 · photograph (digital archive)

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This unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia is shaped like a peanut shell, with an indentation in the crater rim at the middle of the crater. It is likely that this crater was created by a dual impact. In a dual (or double) impact the incoming meteor is broken into two or more pieces which impact together into the surface. This type of impact often has a unique ejecta blanket shape, pinched at the center making a butterfly shape, and a pronounced inner rim jutting out at the center.

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Credit lineUtopia Planitia Crater. NASA/JPL, 2023-12-18. Public domain. ID: PIA26261.

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