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A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon - CNN

Thursday, August 20, 2026

A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon - CNN

A single asteroid strike likely reshaped Mars’ moon Deimos, creating its massive polar crater and a global dust layer.

Mars has two tiny moons that lack a confirmed origin story for how they came to orbit the red planet but new research may explain some of the mysteries surrounding outermost satellite Deimos. Named …

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