[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 |
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