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How were new craters on Mars discovered?

Oxford Sparks Big Questions

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A New Black Spodge on Mars

Last Christmas, I was trying to take some time off when I got this email that said there's been a really big Marsquake on Mars. That's like, okay, could Mars not just wait because we're all on holiday? But little did you know, little did I know, someone had been looking at the weather satellite data. And they looked in the same place and found an enormous crater. So crater makes hole, hole makes waves, we detect the waves.

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