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Before (and after) the meteorite strike

Before and after images of the meteorite strike.
Before and after images of the meteorite strike. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The Context Camera, also aboard MRO, imaged the site both before and after the impact. The rock landed in Amazonis Planitia, a region that looks relatively plain in the before times—and quite interesting in the aftermath. A black dot is the noticeable impact site of the meteorite, and a debris field clearly spreads outwards from where the rock crash-landed.