The region is located north of Hellas Planitia, the largest impact basin on Mars. The image scene exhibits three impact craters, located at the eastern border of Tyrrhena Terra with Hesperia Planum.

This plateau covers around 25% of Mars’ surface and is home to Olympus Mons. The region also includes the volcanoes Ascraeus ...

How researchers use impact craters on Mars to date geological events By Georgina Torbet Published May 15, 2022 Save While ...

And while craters with ice have been seen on Mars before, this one is much closer to the equator than others. The MRO also traced the source of another seismic wave, detected on September 18 last ...

The impact crater, which measures 492 feet (150 meters) across and 70 feet (21 meters) deep and is located near the Martian equator, now offers scientists a rare peek at subsurface Mars.

For a small planet, Mars sure knows how to go big. It's about half as large as Earth, ... Now it can add its coolest, most-braggable title: the Biggest Impact Crater in the Solar System.

The European Space Agency has released new images of the Hellas basin, which formed around four billion years ago when a small asteroid crashed into the Red Planet, creating an impact crater 1,400 ...

It’s impossible to tell for sure how many impact craters there are on Mars. Luckily, ... (0.62 miles) over on Mars, and of them, 43,000 are larger than 5 kilometers (3 miles).

The surface of Mars is pocked by more than 635,000 impact craters at least 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide, a new study reports. The new Martian crater atlas is the largest single database ever ...

On average, an asteroid impacts Earth at speeds of 40,000 mph (64,300 kph), but there are moments when the speed is much higher. And it may be even higher on Mars, a planet that has little ...

Scientists have spotted a stunning new impact cater on the surface of Mars. The crater, which was spotted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), was created sometime between July and ...

The largest impact crater on Earth, the Vredefort crater in South Africa, is 99 miles (160 km) wide and was likely created about 2 billion years ago, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.