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Small Impact Crater

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small meteor crater on the surface of Mars.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-502, 3 October 2003

This May 2003 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image provides a high resolution view (1.5 meters--5 feet--per pixel) of a small meteor crater near 28.0°N, 182.8°W. This crater is about 300 m (~980 feet) across, just under one-third the size of the famous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, U.S.A. Boulders ejected by the impact dot the scene. Sunlight illuminates the crater from the lower left.