NASA has spotted a new impact crater on the surface of Mars, and scientists have released an image of it showing some blue and purple.
The impact exposed the darker material beneath the planet’s characteristic reddish dust, according to the HiRISE Camera website that released the image.
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Veronica Bray, HiRISE team member and University of Arizona scientist, said the blue area could potentially indicate “water ice.”
“That has not yet been confirmed, but commonly, when a HiRISE image of a new impact shows a blue area, it is sometimes water ice,” Bray said in a statement to CNN.
Source: NASA releases new image of an impact crater on the surface of Mars
