Portal:Solar System/Did you know/5

Panther Mountain from Highmount

• ...that New York's Panther Mountain (pictured) was the site of a prehistoric meteor crash?

• ...that the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System?

• ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?

• ...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?