VERY Young Crater

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is located in Arcadia Planitia. The dark rays in the upper half of the image are ejecta from a small crater. This crater is only a couple years old and is just one of a handful of new craters being created by ongoing impact of meteorites into the martian surface.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V95984003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
34.9858
189.882
95984
2023-08-04 15:46
Fri, 2024-06-14
VIS
512 pixels (19 km)
1824 pixels (69 km)
0.037913 km/pixel
0.0384576 km/pixel

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