NASA photographs a fresh crater on Mars that's only a couple years old

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed a fresh crater on Mars's surface that appears to be only a couple of years old.

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Mars, like Earth, is bombarded with a variety of meteors that vary in size and composition. Some of the space pebbles reach the earth's surface.

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Researchers believe they have identified a new crater on Mars using photographs and data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

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The following image was taken by MRO on July 24, 2020, and when compared to an image taken of the same site in 2018, the crater is missing

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indicating that an impact occurred between 2018 and 2020.

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The MRO was launched in 2005 and has been collecting data on Mars since 2006

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Researchers have estimated that Mars is blasted by roughly 200 meteors every year based on their considerable data gathering

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The HiRISE camera that captured these photographs added "fake" colour into the image,

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making it easier for researchers to discern between different materials and textures

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If the person observing the crater was standing close to it, it would appear very different.

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