Creation of Stickney Crater on Phobos (VIDEO)

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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This animation shows one scenario for how the massive crater Stickney could have formed, with a 200-meter object impacting at 8 kps into the 20-km-wide moon. The colored material is moving fast enough to evacuate the forming crater, and the red is moving quickly enough to entirely escape Phobos.

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