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13 SMALL BODIES MAY-JUNE 2014 Crater in of already in itself interesting, and the clearly noticeable and well- preserved rays of ejecta surround- ing it suggest that it is a relatively recent formation. The whole sce- nario has made the Mojave Crater an ideal candidate for a study con- ducted by Stephanie C. Werner (University of Oslo), Anouck Ody (Université de Lyon) and François Poulet (Université Paris Sud). The objective of the three researchers was to discover the area of origin of a well-known group of Martian I n the background and in the video on the side, a sim- ulation of the Mo- jave Crater based on images taken by the MRO, pro- cessed in 3D thanks to the ste- reoscopic effect provided by diffe- rent camera an- gles. [NASA/JPL Caltech/Univer- sity of Arizona]