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Fresh Crater

July 30, 2004
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a fairly small, fresh meteor impact crater in far southeastern Arabia Terra on Mars. The crater's bowl, rim, and ejecta exhibit numerous boulders.

30 July 2004
This full-resolution (1.5 meters, 5 feet, per pixel) Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a fairly small, fresh meteor impact crater in far southeastern Arabia Terra. The crater's bowl, rim, and ejecta exhibit numerous boulders. The image covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide and is located near 6.9°S, 317.1°W. Sunlight illuminates the terrain from the left.

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