Giant Asteroid Flattened Half of Mars, Studies Suggest [News]
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 15:21
in Astronomy & Space
The Phoenix Lander may have dominated Mars news in recent weeks, but a new study performed here on Earth has turned up a whopper of a finding: The Red Planet seems to have been the victim of a massive hit and run more than four billion years ago.That is the conclusion of researchers who have finally mapped the edges of something known as the Martian hemispheric dichotomy. [More]