Not Round Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Most impact events create round craters. In this case the crater is not round, which likely means the surface had fractures or preexisting tectonic features that diverted some of the impact stresses along those features and resulted in the straighter east and north sides.

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Context

Image ID: 
V46152053 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
10.6203
323.397
46152
2012-05-10 09:25
Tue, 2012-08-07
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (65 km)
0.018039 km/pixel
0.01817 km/pixel

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