Eberswalde (crater)

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Eberswalde Crater is an impact crater on Mars. He is one of the important targets in the search for traces of life on Mars, there remains a river deltas were discovered in its interior. The Eberswalde crater located on the southern hemisphere of the planet at 24 ° South and 33 ° West. It was named after the town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. He was discovered by Michael C. Malin and Ken Edgett.

The crater is slightly elliptical, its diameter is 65 kilometers. Suspect Mars researchers such as Timothy Parker of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that his neighbor Crater, Holden Crater, and the Argyre impact basins - were once connected by a river. After the 900 -kilometer Argyre Basin billions of years ago was miles high the water level - to the floods overran and abflossen northward. The huge river system is said to have passed beyond the equator as far as Ares Valles, where in the summer of 1997 went down NASA 's Mars Pathfinder in a dry floodplain.

The hypothesis of this mighty river - he would have surpassed even the Nile in length - is controversial. The existence of liquid water in some areas of the proposed run is, however, widely accepted. After these ideas once filled a lake the Eberswalde crater. Rubble and soil material came via a system of tributaries into this lake and were deposited there. In the mouth region of the sediments disabled the inflowing water. Again and again the flow split to the obstacles. Over time, as standing out of the maze and flowing rivers originated together with their embedded islands a river delta. The delta in Eberswalde crater was, just as the Holden Crater, considered as one of several possible landing areas of the current American Mission Mars Science Laboratory (MSL ) " Curiosity Rover ". However, Chosen of the Gale crater.