NASA spots Pac-Man shaped crater on Mars

ANI  |  Washington [United States] 

NASA and team from the have shared an image of a newly spotted crater on the Red Planet.

The unusually shaped crater looks like Pac-Man from the popular video arcade game from the 1980s.

The Pac-Man shaped crater has been captured using NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in mid-March, Cnet reported.

The image shows the impact crater with a crescent-shaped barchan sand dune inside. While Barchan dunes are common on Mars, the newly spotted crater has a rare configuration and over the next few tens of thousands of years, the sand will be blown out of the crater.

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First Published: Sat, May 19 2018. 13:02 IST