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Cluster of Craters Caught on Mars
By Lisa Grossman May 5, 2011 | 3:27 pm | Categories: Space


Four fresh impact craters were recently spotted scarring Mars’ volcanic plains.

The new pockmarks were first noticed in August 2010, when the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s low-res, grayscale Context camera saw a dark patch that hadn’t been there two years before.

Such new spots often come from impact craters left by meteorites. To confirm that, MRO’s sharp-eyed HiRISE camera went in for a closer look. While the Context camera takes wide-angles miles across, HiRISE zooms in to resolve objects the size of a beach ball.

The telephoto image revealed four distinct craters, each ringed with a dark blanket where soil was blasted out in the impact. The crater quartet could have been formed by a single meteorite that broke apart on its way through Mars’ atmosphere.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/mars-impact-cluster/

[MineralMan]

1. I count seven, not four.

Very interesting.

[nykym]

2. Collateral

Damage LOL

[jberryhill]

3. Ah, the Dick Cheney Mars Mission is going well I see... /nt

[LongTomH]

4. Marvin the Martian?

..........and his Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

[A Simple Game]

5. Next!! Oh, sorry never mind.

I was thinking back to my younger years.

Seriously, thanks n2doc, I really like these kinds of posts. Interesting.

I really appreciate the cartoons also.