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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Mars Guy Video - Impact Melt? - June 7, 2026 (youtu.be)
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Episode 270 Hypervelocity impacts by asteroids, and more rarely comets, can excavate a huge hole in the ground and also generate instant lava by melting the target rocks. Jezero crater should have abundant impact melt and now Perseverance may have found some.

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