Washington, D.C.- The impact of a huge comet or perhaps an asteroid is now believed to be part of why Mars has a decidedly lopsided shape.
Three teams of scientists are agreeing that the shape of Mars appears to be from an impact.
The impact theory features a hole that is 6,500 miles in length, and about 5,200 miles across, and this “hole” dominates much of the face of Mars.
Put it another way: the area of the hole is larger than Europe, Australia and Asia all put together.
This would make this impact site the largest yet known or discovered in the Universe.
The three sets of scientists shared their separate studies that reach the same conclusion in the journal “Nature,” and talk about the Borealis Basin, the name that is sometimes attached to the basic feature on the Mars surface.
In the early days of Mars the area where the basin is located may have even held an ocean, it is not exactly sure.
The recent discovery of what is believed to be Ice Crystals by the NASA Mars Phoenix Lander has also yielded further credence to the idea that water exists on the Red planet.