There are a number of different types of craters that have been observed and studied on Mars. Many of them are shaped by the effects of impacts into ice-rich ground.[1][2]
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types of craters that have been observed and studied on Mars. Many of them are shaped by the effects of impacts into ice-rich ground. Rampart craters shows...
After this it went to Victoria crater, all the way making many panoramas, measurements, studying rocks and smaller craters, even what are thought to be...
central peaks in Martiancraters is larger than comparable craters on Mercury or the Moon. In addition, the central peaks of many large craters on Mars have...
to help in Martian mapping. The site "Be a Martian" went live on November 17, 2009, and allows users to either map features or count craters on Mars. As...
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been asserted that there are no large young craters on Mars that are candidates as sources for the Martian meteorites, but subsequent studies claimed to...
basin as the largest impact crater in the Solar System. Mars is scarred by a number of impact craters: a total of 43,000 craters with a diameter of 5 kilometres...
scientists who studied other Martiancraters. Wide view of Auki Crater, as seen by CTX Close view of central portion of Auki Crater, as seen by HiRISE Arrow...
kilometres (32 miles) on the Martian surface, visiting various surface features in their landing sites of Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum, respectively...
cratered surfaces are old, and sparsely cratered surfaces are young. Old surfaces have many big craters, and young surfaces have mostly small craters...
forces and either crash into Mars or form a ring. Several strings of craters on the Martian surface, inclined further from the equator the older they are, suggest...
inside craters, some of which lie under thick deposits of sand or martian dust. Particularly, the 81.4 kilometres (50.6 mi) wide Korolev Crater, is estimated...
detailed discussion of various kinds of Martiancraters, including double-layer ejecta craters (rampart craters) can be found in a 2014 paper by David...
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