HiPOD: Bang and Whoosh!

This HiRISE image captures a new, dated (within about a decade) impact crater that triggered a slope streak. When the meteoroid hit the surface and exploded to make the crater, it also destabilized the slope and initiated this avalanche.

Slope streaks are created when dry dust avalanches leave behind dark swaths on dusty Martian hills.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_054066_1920
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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