Mars is bombarded by more meteorites than previously thought

Scientists have long wondered why more bowl-shaped craters from asteroid strikes haven’t been found on Mars, despite the Red Planet sitting next to the asteroid belt and its sparse atmosphere being just 1 percent as thick as Earth’s. A new study suggests roughly 300 basketball-sized meteorites pockmark Mars’ surface every year, raising previous estimates byContinue reading “Mars is bombarded by more meteorites than previously thought”
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