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Martian Crater

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on northern Elysium Planitia on Mars, a little more than twice the diameter of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, U.S.A. It formed by the impact and subsequent explosion of a meteorite.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/MSSS
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This crater on northern Elysium Planitia is a little more than twice the diameter of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, U.S.A. It formed by the impact and subsequent explosion of a meteorite. Picture from MOC in July 1998.

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