EXPERTS have figured out what caused a mystery hole on Mars to appear last Christmas. The massive crater is one and a half times the size of London’s Trafalgar Square. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizonaYou can see bits of ice around the crater[/caption] Nasa’s InSight Lander felt the ground shake on Christmas Eve 2021 and spotted the previously unseen crater after. It left scientists scratching their heads as to what caused the huge rumble. But special kit seems to have unlocked the answer at last. And it all points towards a meteoroid. Read More on The Sun I-RARE Apple releases special iPhone that only certain people are allowed to own DI-WOW I’m a mum-of-4 & I gave my council home a glow-up on a budget According to Imperial College London-made quake detectors, a van-sized space rock weighing 200 tonnes was responsible. It produced a blast zone around the crater equivalent in size to the area inside London’s M25 motorway. Nasa believes it’s one of the biggest seen on Mars since it began exploring the cosmos. “The image of the impact was unlike any I had seen before, with the massive crater, the exposed ice, and the dramatic blast zone preserved in the Martian dust,” said…
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Mystery over 500ft Mars crater that ‘suddenly appeared’ finally solved by Nasa scientists