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Impact Craters

  • May 31, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Falling space rocks create about 200 new impact craters a year on Mars. In 2013, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed one impressive crater that was created between 2010 and 2012. Scientists say the impact tossed debris as far as nine miles!

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