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Icy impacts: Planetary scientists use physics and images of impact craters to gauge the thickness of ice on Europa

Water may have flowed intermittently in Martian valleys for hundreds of millions of years. Using impact craters as a dating tool, researchers determined maximum timescales for formation of Martian valley networks shaped by running water - which has big implications for early Mars' habitability.

Impact Craters: Why study them and can they help us find life elsewhere?