Paros (crater)
# Paros (crater)

Paros is an impact crater on Mars. It lies south of Ceraunius Tholus.

It was named by the IAU in 1988 after the ancient Greek city of Paros.

Paros is a complex crater that used to have a mountainous central peak. The peak has been destroyed by an impact and only remnants of the peak protrude above the surface.

A rille extends from the southern rim of Paros to the southwest across the ejecta blanket of the crater and beyond it, towards a shorter, more subdued rille on the older surface.

* Paros crater with its southern ejecta blanket and a rille crossing from the southern rim to outside the ejecta, towards a shorter, more subdued rille on the older surface.
* Central peak of Paros crater was destroyed by a subsequent impact
* Recent impact west of Paros crater, which formed between February 2019 and January 2021
