By: Thumars
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona ⧉
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Uploaded: 3 Mar 2024
Last Updated: 3 Mar 2024

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A lengthy, distinctive impact track is clearly evident, as well as a dynamic pressure wave pattern in the terrain accompaning the crashed flying object. Google Mars Coordinates: 81°20'27.04"N 91°28'50.02"E "Infilled Crater on the North Polar Deposits In the center of the image lies an impact crater about 130 meters across (425 feet). Craters on the polar deposits are rare because the very active surface processes remove them quickly. This particular crater is likely to have been formed less than 100,000 years ago, which is very recent in geologic terms. Streaks of material emanating from the crater rim have been created as the ice and dust being transported across the surface by the wind encounters that obstacle."