Huge Mars impact created solar system's largest crater

[boboriginal]

i am truely disapoint

[Kennraie]

@boboriginal yes

[rspawn]

"Where is the debris ring from such an impact? Phobos and Deimos are hardly an explanation."

Given the force of the impact it is likely that most of the debris did not end up in stable orbit around Mars.

"Don't rely on what science & astronomy spoon feeds the masses"

Right. It's better to rely on what random comments on the internet tell you.

[SpeedMetal13]

There is excellent experimental evidence that Olympus Mons, is a stupendously huge fulgamite aka Lightning Blister. Look at the so-called caldera and its overlapping craters. How can that be explained by mechanical impact or volcanic activity? Where is the debris? Also look at the filamentary burns, the flat shape etc. Additionally, look at the remarkable similarity between Olympus Mons and Ascraeus Mons. The look almost identical. Electrical discharge is a much logical explanation IMHO.

[technologic21]

That collision coupled with the huge Stratovolcanoes like (Olympus Mons) made it pretty inhospitable early on.

Mars has no plate tectonics, it has a solid surface too.

[rochelimit55555]

Ahhh, that explains the smooth northern surface and the fact that the bulge is only on the south... hmm hmm hmm

[Eschatus2]

Planetologists need to go back to the drawing board because this hypothesis doesn't hold water. Where is the debris ring from such a fictional impact?  Phobos and Deimos are hardly an explanation. The northern hemisphere of Mars is an oceanic basin and the southern hemisphere is a highland both formed via Mars' original orbit around a larger planet (today the debris of the Asteroid Belt). The southern side received mass impacting when its maternal planet exploded and seas sheltered the north.

[TonViper]

The asteroid belt is only around 4% of the mass of the earth's moon. Where would the rest of the mass of a planet larger than Mars have gone?

[Eschatus2]

Crater impacting on all the planets in our system including Earth + it involved the intrusion of another star system (binary) through ours and half the debris was whisked away into that system, which is the missing half of our solar system.

[TonViper]

But where is the evidence of that? The rest of the solar system is too neat to have been upset to a degree that could have robbed it of that much mass.

[Eschatus2]

PERSONALLY look for the evidence & you will find it. Don't rely on what science & astronomy spoon feeds the masses. Conventional wisdom is wrong. The evidence is everywhere once you shake the influences over you by the current scientific paradigms. Start fresh with new eyes; don't accept the norm, but rather, question it & you will see what I see. Incidentally, the solar system as been rearranged several times.

[sweekun]

actually every planet has rings, its just that they are so small its impossible to see them unless your up close.

[LukeSkyscraper]

And the asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter not Earth and Mars.

[azteck]

lawlz chuck norris roundhouse kicks give life.

[williampil]

If Chuck Norris was there, HE would have done something...

[severmine]

maybe a reason Mars has that tiny rings around it, unless I'm mistaken?

[look2leap4]

My turd fell into the toilet and caused a splash of similar proportion.

[presidentofloose]

hahaha brilliant!

[OzStone]

If life ever existed on Mars it was probably after this event...

(It's my understanding that this event occurred 4 billion years ago during the early formation of our solar system)

[gaiaplax]

they should make a movie about this. this could definatly explain why mars HAD life but not anymore, and why it's a desert.

[Br4ntburz]

Chuck Norris happened.

[zhero0]

LMAO!

[Leopoldo888]

And this is the shortest explanatory video in the solar system, indeed.

[Q3o5]

my mum is a horse XD?

[ukguvnor]

Mars's northern and southern hemisphere look so differant and scientists have never known exactly why! They recently suggested that a rock the size of our moon hit one side of Mars to create this disfigure and this is a short clip of the rock hitting Mars!

Could also explain why there is know life left on mars for those who believe it once inhabited life!

[flaminjack]

what a video that is....

[Annhilator1338]

Chuck Norris could make a bigger crater

[yellowpig4]

lol

[callumparsnip]

to right!

[LiquidFriction]

Totally true, i've seen him do it.

[petfoodonly]

???

[airbaloonfaileer]

did this happen recently?

[MaxPowWow]

hahahahaha

[LETHLSS]

so are the rovers and phoenix lander ok?

[MaxPowWow]

hahahahaha

[quadstrike]

their goes like 50 explorers... aka tax payers dollars and rare metals

[feerof]

your point is?

[djsuperstar717]

too bad its not live footage

[Clockworkforest]

Why zoom out? the interesting part is what is happening to the planet! Also, no voice over and a 5 sec video sucks! Just find some local college student who will work for free to do video editing.

[Jmcenanly]

It looks much like the collision that formed Earth's Moon. Where is Mars' big moon?

[TooManySnakes]

its not so hard to believe that two similar impact events yeided two different results, is it?

[inthefade]

Mars has two irregularly shaped moons.

[Jmcenanly]

Possibly debris from the collision. There is also the Tharsis bulge, where the big volcanoes are.

[EIN771]

arent u gonna narate on how this was possible?? do u expect even stephen hawking to believe tht without some narration/evidence???

[Magnulus]

Read the description or wait for the Weekly Round-up. Voila.

[EIN771]

read my comment and avoid being correctec ;) i asked how it WAS POSSIBLE :) i dont doubt it i just want to know where the rock/asteroid/ufo/planet came from...

[minieggg1]

do you really expect stephen hawking even watches newscientist?

[jawnybnsc]

Doesn't anyone read anymore? My guess is that the animation is just designed to give the reader a sense of the scale of the event described in the article. How much effort would you expect them to put into an animation accompanying an article this brief?

[sasukesan767]

Owned! Glad Im on earth, sort of...

[canti1988]

earths has had bigger :P

[panicatthediscosuck]

That smashed off nearly half of the planet off.

[canti1988]

and formed the moon and ended the rule of the crab people

[holyfishhhy]

Crab People, Crab People, Walk like crabs, talk like people ...

[Neoxym]

Crab people, crab people... Talk like people... Taste like crab. Yum.

[AppleTrailers]

well that explains how the martians died.

[narcoleptus]

That may have caused martian rock debris to hit the Earth and seed it with Martian Bacteria which evolved into life on Earth!

[kushalaslayer]

And that is a load of crap

[tommasfoolery]

useless.

[Mrmtjones]

newscientist is starting to suck. I mean....what was that? just a little animation?

[nepalihercules]

what the fuck. so funny

[buykh2ordie]

Damnit! I told him not to shoot it...

[Ultramarine646]

Shouldn't that have pushed Mars into Earth and killed us?

[FaithIsImaginary]

Or pushed Mars into its current orbit and left a huge crater?

[Ultramarine646]

Possibly. I just thought an impact like that would normally disrupt orbit.

[MassZombicide]

That's what FaithIsImaginary said

[dafttool]

This was the event they think that sent Mars meteorites to land on Earth, the ones they saw possible evidence of bacteria remnants in when looking under an electron microscope.

[rexrae]

So thats what happened to the ball i kicked up

[scullyy]

ahh!

[rnistuk]

This happened last week. I'm really sorry. I was a little drunk at the time.

Really. Sorry. It won't happen again. I'm getting help.

[SpinergyDude]

LOL this was a a few years back now this took place. :) Cool animation though.

[theendofconfusion]

epic

[super9mario9]

wait when did this happen and how long ago

[VqwertyV]

Read the article :)

[Fwakerz]

wha?