Science Question:
How does the type of terrain or soil affect the impact of a meteor and does the terrain determine if it causes a regular ejecta crater to be formed?

Main Results:
The terrain changes the impact because if it hits lava or some wet ground it is a splosh crater, but if it hits hard dry ground it is just a normal impact crater. When the crater forms, if it is a splosh crater, you would see ripples around the crater. If it was a regular crater, there would be no ripples, just dry ejecta. The fact that our image was take near a volcano, the lava flow could make a splosh crater in that area.

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