Context Camera data shows a dark blast zone in one image that was not present in an earlier picture, constrained to less than one Mars year (which is two Earth years). When this occurs, HiRISE is often requested to target such features to examine if the feature might be an impact crater, such as we see here in full resolution, along with other, smaller impacts that could be secondaries. The dark ejecta will fade over time.

ID: ESP_075359_1730
date: 24 August 2022
altitude: 266 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_075359_1730
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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