Early Mars Impact May Have Shaped Terrain, Formed Two Moons

Credit: Mars: NASA
HOUSTON—An impact from a Ceres-sized planetary object early in its history may explain some of the more mysterious characteristics of Mars, researchers in the U.S. and Japan say. Those characteristics include dramatic differences in the elevation and geology of the Northern and Southern hemispheres...

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