https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/strange-crater-in-the-basement-of-mars/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/strange-crater-in-the-basement-of-mars/#comment-1097983 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:38:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71695#comment-1097983 If this were on earth, I’d suspect that this is the core of an eroded crater, and we’re looking at previously tilted basement rocks beneath the impact’s severe damage zone. The surrounding landscape would have also eroded downward – so we’re seeing only the lower portions of the crater wall and underlying tilted basement. Surface ejecta long gone. Of course, this isn’t earth . . .

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