Crater investigators explore Mars from afar – Phys.org

What can impacts from space teach us about the red planet?
NASA’s Perseverance rover launched last week, on a mission to collect the first samples of Mars to return to Earth. To pull that off, they’ll have to nail a precision landing on autopilot and then figure out how to pull off an even more delicate take off.
But spacecraft aren’t the only thing landing on the surface of Mars. It’s also regularly smashed by rocks from outer spaceand those landings, while much messier, can tell us just as m…

Click here to view the original article.