PIA02084: Martian Crater
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on northern Elysium Planitia on Mars, a little more than twice the diameter of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, U.S.A. It formed by the impact and subsequent explosion of a meteorite.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1536 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-161  
 Addition Date:  1999-07-19 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02084.tif (1.547 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02084.jpg (261.2 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This crater on northern Elysium Planitia is a little more than twice the diameter of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, U.S.A. It formed by the impact and subsequent explosion of a meteorite. Picture from MOC in July 1998.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/MSSS

Image Addition Date:
1999-07-19