This image shows a small, colorful new crater near the equator of Mars, first detected by the Context Camera. The distinctive color of all of the ejecta shows that the surface material is different from the subsurface.

Craters like this can provide useful probes of the composition of buried materials, which can be different from the surface because of weathering or processes that preferentially add or remove materials with different composition or grain size.

ID: ESP_080494_1700
date: 28 September 2023
altitude: 261 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080494_1700
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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