Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots recent impact crater

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, captured this view of a recent impact crater on the Red Planet. According to a NASA description, “the new crater and its ejecta have distinctive color patterns. Once the colors have faded in a few decades, this new crater will still be distinctive compared to the secondaries by having a deeper cavity compared to its diameter.” North is up.

A recent crater on Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona