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By Asteroids/Meteors crashing into Mars.

These same objects crash imnto the Moon and Earth.

On the Moon there is no atmosphere/watwer to erode away craters, so they are seen quite clearly.

However, in Earth there are just as many meteors crashes. However, the Earth's atmosphere and water erode these crash sites so we do not clearly see meteor crash sites on Earth.

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