Brand New Impact Crater Shows Up On Mars

(Before It's News)

 
Photo:NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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The great thing about the longevity of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is that we can see changes taking place on the Red Planet, such as this relatively new and rather large impact crater. This image shows a stunning 30-meter-wide crater with a rayed blast zone and far-flung secondary material surrounding.

Scientists say the impact and resulting explosion threw debris as far as 15 kilometers in distance. Before and after pictures of this region show the new impact crater formed between July 2010 and May 2012. The image has been enhanced in false color and so the fresh crater appears blue because of the lack of reddish dust that covers most of Mars’ surface.

Let this be a reminder to any potential colonists of Mars. It will be hazardous. Hazards like no other colony in history has faced.  In that danger, I hope the goodness in man will reign supreme on Mars and be the law of the land.  A colony on Mars should be a new, experimental, fresh and evolved society.  Not more of the same.

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