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The Martian floor is closely cratered
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When a single small meteorite struck Mars a couple of million years in the past, it didn’t simply create one crater. It finally created billions of them. The major crater, known as Corinto, is just below 14 kilometres throughout, however the particles from that meteorite collision shaped about two billion further craters, known as secondaries.
When a meteorite slams into the bottom, it will possibly blast an enormous plume of rocks into the air. When these rocks fall again down, they create their very own smaller craters, typically in chains and…