Digital terrain model subsurface2/13/2023 ![]() Mojave is one of the freshest large craters on Mars. The portion of its northwestern edge shown here spans about 3.5 kilometers (about 2.5 miles) in width halfway between the bottom and top of the image. ![]() ![]() Mojave Crater is approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) in diameter, centered at 327.0 degrees east latitude, 7.5 degrees north latitude. These "pitted ponds" are thought to result when material melted by the crater-causing impacts is captured behind the wall terraces. Hundreds of impact craters on Mars have similarly ponded features with pitted surfaces. This view (above), in which the vertical dimension is exaggerated three-fold compared with horizontal dimensions, shows the ponding of material backed up behind massive wall-terrace blocks of bedrock. A digital terrain model generated from a stereo pair of images provides this synthesized, oblique view of a portion of the wall terraces of Mojave Crater in the Xanthe Terra region of Mars.
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