A Recent Explosion on the Surface of Mars

Although research on the surface of Mars has been going on for many years, there is still a lot of things we do not know and have just discovered about the Red Planet. Exploration vehicles orbiting Mars continue to send us new information about the planet every day.

Recently, we shared with you that a flower-like formation was discovered on the surface of Mars. After the researchers’ work on this image, it was determined that the formation was a mineral formation. Today, another image recorded on the surface of Mars was found to be an explosion on the surface of Mars.

The object hitting the surface of Mars created an explosion effect

It is a fact that the surface of Mars is covered with craters, and many of these craters are gigantic in size. So far, it has been determined that there are 43,000 craters on the surface of Mars, with a width of 4,000 km so far. In addition to these craters, it is estimated that there are more than a quarter of a million impact craters the size of Arizona’s famous 1200-metre-wide Barringer Crater. One of the most recently formed impact craters ever recorded has been recorded by NASA’s rover orbiting Mars.

After the rover discovered a ‘blackness’ on the surface of Mars and took a close-up photo, the researchers started their new investigations on this subject. The impact crater was found to be formed when an object collided with Mars between February 2006 and March 2014. However, if the depth of the pit formed after the impact is higher than 5 km, it is estimated to be approximately 5 km. Traces of the explosion can be clearly seen around the craters, which are thought to have formed as a result of an asteroid or meteorite impact.

The effects of the impact on the surface of Mars will remain there for millions of years

Although in many ways Mars is a different planet from Earth, just like Mars, Earth is also It contains many impact craters. The large number of impact craters that exist on Earth appear as a result of the active geological activities of our planet.

Mars is not as active as Earth in this regard, but the crater-covered Red Planet is affected by geological activities at least as much as Earth. Since Mars does not have forests and seas to cover these craters, any crater formed on its surface can be seen much more easily. So the Red Planet will have to carry the traces of this new impact crater on its surface for perhaps millions of years.