Martian butterfly crater reveals low angle impact and buried lava history
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has observed an impact crater in Mars’s northern lowlands whose shape resembles a butterfly, created when an incoming space rock struck the surface at a shallow angle. The main crater, which appears somewhat like a walnut from orbit, measures about 20 km east to west and 15 km north to south and sits within the Idaeus Fossae region. The impact threw material preferenti
Published by SpaceDaily on 12/05/2025
