Comments on: Lava-filled Martian crater https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/lava-filled-martian-crater/ Sat, 02 Dec 2023 04:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/lava-filled-martian-crater/#comment-1435650 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 04:05:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=100685#comment-1435650 I like a good mystery.
The best guess I have is the magma is close to the surface and the impact penetrated the crust and splashed the molten center, filling the crater from inside and creating the larger lava event?
Otherwise, your explanation of mars being wet, going through a glacial period in the recent past is probably the better idea.
If our solar system past through supernova remains in the local fluff, with gases that blocked the sun light covering Mars and all the moons (like Europa) with ice, including the ice ages of earth. The extra water mass may have moved the earth to a higher orbit where it wasn’t so hot like during the dinosaurs.
There are many things wrong with my explanation including the likelihood that Mars was still active at the time of impact.

The gullies along the crater rim we’re not eroded by water, then deposited that material below the gullies… but rather the wind blowing the sand up the face, then the sand trickled down like water eroding and depositing below each gullie. (that’s what the visual evidence suggests)
Slope streaks, some fresh, are above the crater walls. A different mystery.

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