Portal:Solar System/Did you know/5

...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?