Tucked away in Heilongjiang Province, a crescent-shaped crater tells a dramatic story of planetary violence that occurred tens of thousands of years ago. This isn’t just any geological formation ...

Why it's incredible: The crater has a unique oval shape and asymmetric sides. The Hailin impact crater is a giant gouge in a Chinese hillside that was left by a asteroid which smashed into Earth ...

The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is thought to have detonated an explosive charge on the asteroid it is exploring. The idea was to create an artificial crater on the object known as Ryugu.

HiRise team speculates it’s because of sand filling up the upwind portion of the crater. This isn’t the first time images from the surface of Mars have resembled icons familiar to humans.