An asteroid crash created a new impact crater on Mars

The camera is used to snap when it is detected

Using a powerful camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the high-resolution camera captured a detailed image of the impact site. The high-resolution camera snapped the photo when the dark spot on the Martian surface was detected. Scientists at the University of Arizona estimated that the impact emerged between February 2006 and March 2014 and that the entire black and white image is under three miles wide. The planet Mars has more than 43,000 craters, similar to Arizona's famous Barringer Crater.

 

The presence of materials is falling asteroids

The crater of Mars, which is covered in holes, is visible by rays of materials surrounding it. The cavities are the result of falling asteroids or meteorites. The Earth has more than a quarter-million impact craters. More than a quarter-million cavities exist on Mars, which is about the size of Arizona's famed Barringer Crater. Each of the excavations is about half a kilometer across. There is little that has washed or otherwise been covered up on Mars today. It is not nearly as geologically dead as Earth.

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A lava layer covers the surface of the Earth

As the giant plates that makeup Earth's crust continually move rock beneath the surface and back up to the surface, different parts of Earth's surface have been covered with lava or recycled over millions of years. A Mars crater could be visible for millions of years. The Earth has about 120 impact craters. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a relatively recent impact site on Mars' surface using its powerful camera aboard the orbiter.

 

The formation is in the form of black and white

Using the black and white image as a reference, the entire image is no larger than five kilometers or about three miles across. The impact, which is new in cosmic terms, is thought to have formed between 2006 and 2014.