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Oldest and Largest Impact Crater Found on Venus

Tesserae are one of Venus’s many mysteries — we don’t know how they formed, or when. This radar image shows Alpha Regio; the bright area contains the jumbled terrain characteristic of tesserae. NASA / JPL Detailed mapping of one of the oldest terrains on Venus has revealed a giant impact structure of a type never […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video, photos)

NASA’s Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds. The car-sized Perseverance landed on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) Jezero Crater in February 2021 to hunt for signs of past Mars life and collect dozens of samples for future return to Earth. Perseverance has finished […]