Stickney Crater on Phobos (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stickney Crater on Phobos

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated for the first time how an asteroid or comet could have caused the mega crater on Phobos without completely destroying the Martian moon.

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Viking Project, JPL, NASA

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