crater

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Shocked quartz is especially significant because no large crater has been found from this event.

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Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels, overflowed crater rims, and rushed through canyons.

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These images revealed craters that expose ice, patterned ground known as polygonal terrain, and other surface features that often indicate ice just below the surface.

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"And yet they don't necessarily form a crater, or they form ephemeral surface disturbances, but they're not the classic major craters that come from direct impacts."

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One earlier feature, known as the "Area F Building," is a terraced complex carved into the slope of the ancient volcanic crater around which the settlement formed.

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