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Small and young Impact Crater in the NPLD (edm - natural colors; credits: Lunexit)
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The Impact Crater is about 66 meters (215 feet) in diameter. Ejecta from this Crater can be seen extending primarily to the North-West.
The asymmetry in the crater ejecta can be an effect of atmospheric winds associated with the impact itself but, in this case, is most likely the result of an oblique impact (a low impact angle with respect to the horizontal).
As impact angles decrease, the ejecta blanket is increasingly offset downrange.
The impactor that formed this crater approached the surface from the South-East. The slightly elliptical shape of the crater is also a result of an oblique impact.
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