Identifying new impacts on Mars often begins with noticing dark spots in Context Camera images, another instrument on MRO with a larger footprint than HiRISE but with lower resolution. This impact formed at most between February 2006 and March 2014, but other data could narrow that range.

ID: ESP_065327_1765
date: 3 July 2020
altitude: 264 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065327_1765
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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