Measuring 30 metres in diameter and ejecting debris up to 9.3 miles, it was formed between July 2010 and May 2012.
Around 200 impact craters such as these are created every year but few are as dramatic as this one.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time.
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This Aug. 9, 2011 image provided by NASA shows a view from the Mars Rover Opportunity from the Western rim of the Endeavour Crater. (credit:AP)
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This undated image provided by NASA shows the Mars rover Opportunity looking back at an outcrop where it spent the Martian winter in 2012. (credit:AP)
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This image provided by NASA shows a rock that the NASA Mars rover Opportunity examined in 2012. (credit:AP)
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This image provided by NASA shows a shadow self-portrait taken by NASAs Opportunity rover on the Martian surface. (credit:AP)
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This image provided by NASA shows a panoramic view from NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity of "Solander Point." (credit:AP)
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This image provided by NASA shows the late-afternoon shadow cast by the Mars rover Opportunity at Endeavour Crater. The six-wheel rover landed on Mars in January 2004 and is still going strong. (AP Photo/NASA) (credit:AP)
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Handout photo issued by NASA Wednesday 21 January 2004 of a image mosaic taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. (credit:PA)
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Nasa undated computer generated image of what the it's Spirit rover would look like on the surface of Mars. (credit:PA)
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This magnified image taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity shows evidence of past flowing water. (credit:Getty Images)
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This magnified image taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity shows evidence of past flowing water. (credit:Getty Images)