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The catalog is divided into three partial lists: List of craters on Mars: A–G; List of craters on Mars: H–N; List of craters on Mars: O–Z; Names are grouped into tables for each letter of the alphabet, containing the crater's name (linked if article exists), coordinates, diameter in kilometers, year of official name adoption (approval), the eponym ("named after") and a direct reference ...
An expanded crater is a type of secondary impact crater. [22] Large impacts often create swarms of small secondary craters from the debris that is blasted out as a consequence of the impact. [22] Studies of a type of secondary craters, called expanded craters, have given us insights into places where abundant ice may be present in the ground.
Mars is much less tectonically active than Earth, and marsquakes are unlikely to have provided seismic waves of the required magnitude. [10] Most sizable craters on Mars date to the Late Heavy Bombardment , 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago (the Noachian period), and are older than the landslide deposits in Valles Marineris.
Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. This crater was first visited by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. [1]
Jezero on the edge of the Isidis basin. Jezero [a] (ICAO: JZRO) is a crater on Mars in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, [3] about 45.0 km (28.0 mi) in diameter. Thought to have once been flooded with water, the crater contains a fan-delta deposit rich in clays. [4]
Opportunity rover images Burns Cliff inside Endurance impact crater in 2004. This is a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).
Elevation map of crater Schiaparelli imaged by MGS. This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here contains only named Martian craters starting with the letter O – Z (see also lists for A – G and H – N).
The Hellas quadrangle contains part of the Hellas Basin, the largest known impact crater on the surface of Mars and the second largest in the solar system. The depth of the crater is 7152 m [5] (23,000 ft) below the standard topographic datum of Mars. The basin is located in the southern highlands of Mars and is thought to have been formed ...