Mars peppered with meteorites

Mars peppered with meteorites
by John Roach, msnbc.com, ‎June 14, 2011‎
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/14/6857163-mars-peppered-with-meteorites

Mars Hit by Cosmic Buckshot Again by Ian O'Neill
Discovery News, June 13, 2011
http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-hit-by-cosmic-buckshot-again-110613.html

and

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-impact-craters-meteorite-cluster.html

Candidate New Impact Site Formed between December 
2002 and March 2008, ESP_022299_2040, HiRISE
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_022299_2040

Yours,

Paul H.

Elongate Possible Simutaneous Multiple Impact Crater Found On Mars

Satellites See Evidence of One-Two Asteroid Punches on Mars
Wired Science, Lisa Grossman, March 4, 2011  
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/mars-double-craters/

 

A slug-shaped crater, which lies in Mars’ heavily cratered 
southern highlands and just south of the Huygens basin,
appears to represent a chain of impactors hitting Mars at 
shallow angle. The image is at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/mars-double-craters/long-crater/

 

and "The scars of impacts on Mars" (ESA Mars Expressed, 4 March 2011)
at http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMTK5VTLKG_0.html

 

and http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars_Express/SEMTK5VTLKG_1.html

 

A possibly related structure is described in "Weird Oblong 
Crater Deepens Mars Mystery" by Lisa Grossman (Wired
Science, August 27, 2010) at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/oblong-martian-crater/

 

Yours,

Paul H.

Simultaneous Impact Double Crater Possibly Found on Mars

Mars meteorite craters: Make mine a double by Ian O'Neill
Discovery News, February 28, 2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41836713/ns/technology_and_science-discoverycom/

"It  is believed that one object split right before slamming
into the planet."

Conjoined Twins (ESP_020894_1395) y Alfred McEwen,
HiRISE Operations Center, Tucson, Arizona 85721 
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020894_1395

Image of double crater at:
http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/ESP/ORB_020800_020899/ESP_020894_1395/ESP_020894_1395_RED.abrowse.jpg

"This image shows a remarkable double crater with a 
shared rim and North-South trending ejecta deposits. 
These two craters must have formed simultaneously."

Photo: Double meteor craters on Mars, Seattle Post 
Intelligencer, Feb 28, 2011‎
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/02/28/photo-double-meteor-craters-on-mars/

Yours,

Paul H.