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Comment Re:Mountain in a crater (Score 1) 42

Could it have been an initial impact in another part of the moon where the impactor fragmented and this piece "bounced" around before landing here? It does look strange, because anything that large which would land and make a depression that deep, it seems like there would be at least some ejecta rays or a crater rim or something. It looks like a big finger smushed the land down and then put a rock in it.

Or maybe it's a mountain feature where for whatever reason the ground around the base has eroded away. Maybe the mountain was warmer and caused nitrogen snow or something to sublime away.

I'd really like an explanation for it. The worst thing about missions like this is that we go zipping by taking awesome pictures of amazing things, and we can't easily go back and get better pictures of things we want to investigate.

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