Comments on: What might be the weirdest crater on Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-might-be-the-weirdest-crater-on-mars/ Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:02:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-might-be-the-weirdest-crater-on-mars/#comment-1625385 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:02:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119158#comment-1625385 Yup Bob… Just speculation…. Although unlikely, it would be wonderful if we get a few answers while still breathing… Otherwise we must try and instil the curiosity into those that follow us.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-might-be-the-weirdest-crater-on-mars/#comment-1625383 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:51:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119158#comment-1625383 In reply to Lee S.

Lee S: Every guess you propose is a possible explanation.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-might-be-the-weirdest-crater-on-mars/#comment-1625382 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:30:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119158#comment-1625382 Great photo! To cause such an elongated crater the impactor would have needed to come in at a very steep angle and very slowly… Perhaps slowed by a significant atmosphere? Or more likely in my mind it could be some form of volcanic feature?

Very much a head scratcher! As you often remind us, Mars is very, very alien.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-might-be-the-weirdest-crater-on-mars/#comment-1625350 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:54:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119158#comment-1625350 I remember the original 1997 documentary called “Three Minutes to Impact.”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/feb/16/deadly-space-rubble-asteroids-pose-a-threat-to/

Where the Río Cuarto craters were discussed:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JE004477

With Mars, perhaps the remains of the grazing impactor are nearby. I have wondered if sea-mounts/guyot might be sunken spacebergs.

This *might* be a shallow crater?

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