NASA May Have Landed on a Martian Megatsunami Deposit Nearly 50 Years Ago

NASA May Have Landed on a Martian Megatsunami Deposit Nearly 50 Years Ago

Space Daily

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Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022

When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez shows the landing site may be on the margins of a megatsunami deposit, formed when a 3-kilometer asteroid impacted a northern Martian ocean about 3.4 billion years ago.

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