A recent encounter

This juvenile crater was likely created by an impact some time in the last five years. The modest-looking crater has tossed out an impressive amount of ejecta, which spreads out for almost one kilometre (0.62 miles). Earth and Mars receive regular bombardments from space debris, but we see less of it on Earth as it usually burns up in our atmosphere upon entry. But on Mars the surface pressure is one per cent that of Earth’s, so a greater amount of impactors make it to the surface. This scene was captured by the HiRISE instrument on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).