Central Pit Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Crater floors can have a range of features, from flat to a central peak or a central pit. This unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea has a central pit. The different floor features develop do due several factors, including the size of the impactor, the geology of the surface material and the geology of the materials at depth.

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Context

Image ID: 
V60737005 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
22.3358
61.2019
60737
2015-08-23 20:13
Fri, 2015-11-13
VIS
512 pixels (19 km)
1824 pixels (67 km)
0.036825 km/pixel
0.037197 km/pixel

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