Mars is hit by hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks every year

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Hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks slam into Mars every year, leaving impact craters and rumbling on the Red Planet, according to new research.

Mission planners can use the revelations, captured in data collected by a now-abandoned NASA mission, in determining the landing site for future robotic missions and astronaut crews on the red planet.

NASA's InSight mission ended when the stationary lander lost a battle in December 2022 due to a buildup of Martian dust on its solar panels, but ...