This image shows a new impact site originally detected by the Context Camera onboard MRO. The crater is on a dusty slope, which also has several dark slope streaks due to dust avalanches.

A previous impact at another place on Mars triggered a major dust avalanche, but this one did not. This tells us that the dust here is more stable (stronger and/or on a lower slope).

ID: ESP_048686_1785
date: 15 December 2016
altitude: 268 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_048686_1785
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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