THEMIS: Landslide

Landslide (THEMIS_IOTD_20140826)THEMIS Image of the Day, August 26, 2014. Today’s VIS image shows a landslide deposit within a complex crater (note the ejecta to the top and bottom of the image). There is a smaller complex crater on the ejecta to the north of the larger crater. This “doublet” crater with the linear interior rim is formed when two impactors hit the surface simultaneously. The impactors are initially all part of the same meteor. The larger crater may have formed from multiple impactors.

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