Muddy Ejecta Flow

The ejecta spraying out of the new crater landed back on the ground and then continued to flow away from the new crater, and the smaller crater was in the way of that muddy flow. You can see where much of the muddy material flowed around the crater’s uplifted rim and forms a squiggly ridge, but you can also see where the mud flow slid over the rim and ponded down in the bottom of the crater.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_046843_1940
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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