Amazing impact crater where a triple asteroid smashed into Mars

Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 10:30 in Astronomy & Space

At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks so unusual is that it likely is a triple impact crater, formed when three asteroids struck all at once in the Elysium Planitia region.

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