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Secondaries near Cerberus

This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a field of small craters formed by secondary debris thrown from a larger meteoritic impact on the plains south of the Cerberus region on Mars.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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7 January 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a field of small craters formed by secondary debris thrown from a larger meteoritic impact on the plains south of the Cerberus region.

Location near: 2.3°N, 195.7°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Winter

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