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Incredible Images Reveal a Mysteriously Formed Triple Crater on Mars – ScienceAlert
In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets.
In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets.
Today, the surface of the red planet is covered in no less than 43,000 impact craters larger than 5 kilometres; some ancient regions have received more of a beating than others.
In the ancient Martian highlands of Noachis Terra – a region heavily impacted roughly 4 billion years ago – astronomers have spotted a triple whammy crater made of three overlapping basins.
This natural…
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