Mars Asteroid Hit 200 Times a Yr

Foto kawah baru sebagai hasil dari tabrakan meteor di Mars yang diambil oleh wahana HiRISE NASA. IMars Asteroid Hit 200 Times a Yr | New



NASA recently revled that the planet Mars was more frequently hit by asteroids and comets than previously thought. Mars was hit by asteroids many as 200 times ch yr. The average asteroid that hit the planet msuring 1-2 meters.

As a result of the many emerging asteroid impact craters on Mars recently. Average new crater msuring 3.9 meters. NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) has found 245 new large crater in recent yrs. "It's very interesting because we can immediately know as soon as the crater formed," said Ingrid Daubar resrchers from the University of Arizona. "It reminds us that Mars is an active planet, and we can see the process that happened today," he added.

Mars is often hit by asteroids because the Martian atmosphere is thinner than rth.