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Triple Impact

July 24, 2005
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows three aligned meteor impact craters on the floor of a much larger crater in the Noachis Terra region on Mars.

24 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.5 meters per pixel (~5 ft/pixel) view of three aligned meteor impact craters on the floor of a much larger crater in the Noachis Terra region. The craters may have formed together from a single event in which the impactor (the meteor) was broken into three pieces.

Location near: 33.9°S, 10.5°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Spring

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