This DTM covers a large new crater on Mars, constrained to have formed in September 2021. This impact (actually a cluster of overlapping new craters) occurred on the wall of a graben, a long depression where faults on either side caused the center to drop downwards. This resulted in an irregular, asymmetric crater with one wall much higher than the other.

This new crater is at latitude 38.1 degrees North, nearly the same as the similarly-sized crater in another observation. However, it is not clear whether this crater exposed ice from the subsurface as occurred at that site. Some of the exposed material is brighter than the surroundings, but there is also some diffuse bright material that is unlikely to be ice.

Written by: HiRISE Science Team