[meteorite-list] Elongate Possible Simutaneous Multiple Impact Crater Found On Mars

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:58:15 -0500
Message-ID: <20110313125815.Q637G.34095.imail_at_eastrmwml33>

Satellites See Evidence of One-Two Asteroid Punches on Mars
Wired Science, Lisa Grossman, March 4, 2011
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/mars-double-craters/

A slug-shaped crater, which lies in Mars? heavily cratered
southern highlands and just south of the Huygens basin,
appears to represent a chain of impactors hitting Mars at
 shallow angle. The image is at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/mars-double-craters/long-crater/

and "The scars of impacts on Mars" (ESA Mars Expressed, 4 March 2011)
at http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMTK5VTLKG_0.html
and http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMTK5VTLKG_1.html

A possibly related structure is described in "Weird Oblong
Crater Deepens Mars Mystery" by Lisa Grossman (Wired
Science, August 27, 2010) at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/oblong-martian-crater/

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sun 13 Mar 2011 12:58:15 PM PDT