Touring Mars' Wildest Craters

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Ever wonder why Mars looks like a cosmic punching bag?

[00:00:03]Those massive bowls aren't volcanoes.

[00:00:06]They're impact craters, and they hold the wildest secrets of the red planet.

[00:00:11]So, what are they?

[00:00:12]Craters are giant scars formed when space rocks, asteroids, and meteorites slam into the surface at tens of thousands of miles [music] per hour.

[00:00:21]Because Mars has a super thin atmosphere, it can't burn these space rocks up like Earth does.

[00:00:28]And Mars has some famous ones. First, Jezero Crater, an ancient dried-up lake bed where NASA's Perseverance rover is currently hunting for signs of alien life.

[00:00:39]Then there's Gale Crater, a massive 96-mi wide basin with a literal mountain sitting right in the middle of it.

[00:00:47]And look at Hellas Planitia. It's one of the largest impact craters in the entire solar system.

[00:00:53]It's so deep, Mount Everest could [music] easily sit inside it.

[00:00:58]Every crater is a time capsule into [music] Mars's past.

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