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Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters

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Asteroids are estimated to impact Mars just once every 3 million years. The impact occurred at the equator of Mars in a region humanity has named Elysium Planitia. It left behind a main, 8.6-mile wide and 0.62-mile deep crater called Corinto. The secondary craters range in size from 656 feet (200 meters) to 0.8 miles (1.3 km) in diameter.

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Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters

An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.

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How 2 billion craters on Mars were created by 1 asteroid

This is the Corinto crater in Elysium Planitia on Mars. A new study using data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the single asteroid impact that created Corinto also created about 2 billion much smaller secondary craters on Mars, up to 1,200 miles (2,000 km) away. Image via NASA/ JPL/ M. Golombek et al. About 2 million years ago, an asteroid hit Mars and created Corinto crater. A massive amount of smaller debris from the impact forme…

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