Our solar system is evolving.
A powerful camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a relatively recent impact site on the Martian surface. The high-resolution camera snapped the detailed shot after the dark spot on the ground was detected.
The impact, which is brand new in terms, formed between February 2006 and March 2014, according to the team at the University of Arizona. The entire black and white image is under 3 miles. There are visible rays of material around the crater, which was formed from a falling asteroid or meteorite.
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Mars is covered in craters. There are over a quarter-million impact craters, which is about the size of Arizona's famous Barringer Crater. There are over 43,000 craters on Mars.
Earth has around 120 impact craters. Over hundreds of millions of years, different parts of Earth's surface have been covered in lava or recycled as the giant plates that compose Earth's crust continually move rock below and back up to the surface. Mars is not nearly as geologically dead as Earth is. There is little to wash away or cover up on Mars today.
One of the impact craters on Mars could be seen for millions of years.
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