Texas-Size Asteroid Slammed Early Mars, Studies Say

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 16:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A huge impact basin in the red planet's northern hemisphere could explain why the crust there is so much thinner than crust in the south, three new papers report.

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