Giant ‘tree stump’ impact crater spotted on Mars

AndronETalksNews
Space
By Chelsea Gohd
January 28, 2022
A Mars probe has snapped a peculiar image of the Red Planet’s surface that looks like a giant tree stump, rings and all.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, studies Mars from above, circling the planet and collecting data about its sparse atmosphere. But this orbital vantage point also allows TGO to see Mars from above, snapping images with its Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) camera.
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