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This is the largest meteorite impact ever discovered. Nasa has unveiled photos of the crater on the planet Mars, and recorded the sound of its impact.
This is a major advance in the exploration of Mars, and which is materialized by two discoveries. On the one hand, a huge crater formed by the fall of a meteorite on December 24, 2021. The collision caused pieces of ice buried in the ground to spring up all around the crater. The impact was discovered by the French seismograph onboard NASA’s InSight module.
The American Reconnaissance probe then located and photographed the crater. The ground module and the orbiting probe have also identified areas of seismic activity, which are upsetting what we thought we knew about Mars. “Mars is not a planet, as we thought, very sleepy, it may still be active”, observes Olivier de Goursac, of the Astronomical Society of France. However, it is too early to say with certainty that the intense activity in the Martian subsoil is a sign of the presence of a form of life.