A New Impact Crater

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The map is projected here at a scale of 25 centimeters (9.8 inches) per pixel.
[The original image scale is 27.8 centimeters (10.9 inches) per pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 55.5 cm/pixel (21.9 inches) per pixel (with 2 x 2 binning).] North is up.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) keeps finding new impact sites on Mars. This one occurred within the dense secondary crater field of Corinto Crater, to the north-northeast.

The new crater and its ejecta have distinctive color patterns. Once the colors have faded in a few decades, this new crater will still be distinctive compared to the secondaries by having a deeper cavity compared to its diameter.

This is a stereo pair with ESP_054035_1915 .

Background Info:

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name	Value	Additional Values
Target	Mars
System
Target Type	Planet
Mission	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Instrument Host	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Host Type	Orbiter
Instrument	High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
Detector
Extra Keywords	Color, Crater, Impact, Map
Acquisition Date
Release Date	2018-05-29
Date in Caption
Image Credit	NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Source	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22462
Identifier	PIA22462