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The InSight spacecraft landed within an ~27‐m diameter highly degraded impact crater, informally called Homesteadhollow, that was disturbed during landing by pulsed retrorockets that blew out dust and scoured loose sand around the landing site. In order to provide insight into what the surface of Homesteadhollow originally looked like before landing and to further characterize hollow physical properties, we examined images of similar hollows taken by the Spirit rover at the Gusev landing site. Hollows at both sites are characterized by a quasi‐circular appearance with little or no crater rim still visible and a bright interior with fewer and smaller rock sizes relative to the surrounding plains. Resolvable clast lengths (>2 mm) measured in Lagunahollow at the Spirit site and Homesteadhollow are comparable with most clasts between 3 and 7 mm in length. Measurements of clast shapes show that those in Lagunahollow are slightly more elongate relative to those in Homesteadhollow, although this may be an artifact of the differing viewing geometry and (or) a thicker dust mantle obscuring the full shape of clasts at Lagunahollow. The soils at both hollows show evidence for cohesion and a duricrust, with a trench dug at Lagunahollow and pits exposed at Homesteadhollow exhibiting steep slopes, overhanging layers, and clods of soils. The similarities in morphology and physical properties of hollows at two different landing sites suggest recent environmental conditions that degrade and infill impact craters are comparable and pervasive for equatorial volcanic plains on Mars. Degraded impact craters called hollows at both the InSight and Spirit landing sites appear similar in morphology from orbital and surface imagesThe clasts within Homesteadhollow are similar in size and shape to those within Lagunahollow, with most resolvable clasts ranging from 3–7 mm in lengthThe hollow similarities at two different landing sites suggest recent environmental conditions that degrade and infill craters are comparable and pervasive

The InSightmission landed its scientific payload in Homestead hollow, a quasi‐circular depression interpreted to be a highly degraded impact crater that is 27 m in diameter. The original pristine crater formed in a preexisting impact‐generated regolith averaging ~3 m thick and the surrounding ejecta deposit, consisting of coarse and mostly fine fragments, was in disequilibrium with local geomorphic thresholds. As a result, early, relatively rapid degradation by mostly eolian, and lesser impact processes and mass‐wasting, stripped the rim and mostly infilled the hollow where sediments were sequestered. Early, faster degradation during the first ~0.1 Ga was followed by much slower degradation over the bulk of the 0.4–0.7 Ga history of the crater. Pulses of much lesser degradation are attributed to impacts in and nearby the hollow, which emplaced some rocks as ejecta and provided small inventories of fine sediments for limited additional infilling. Even lesser sediments were derived from the very slow production of fines via weathering of resistant basaltic rocks. Nevertheless, indurated regolith caps the sediment fill within the hollow and creates a relatively stable present‐day surface that further sequesters infilling sediments from remobilization. The degradation sequence at Homestead hollowis like that established at the Spiritrover landing site in Gusev crater and points to the importance of eolian, and lesser impact and mass‐wasting processes, in degrading volcanic surfaces on Mars over the past ~1 Ga. The InSightmission landed in a highly degraded impact crater dubbed Homestead hollowin Elysium Planitia on Mars. The hollow interior is quite flat and smooth, and mostly infilled by fine‐grained sediments. Rocks are 2–3 times more numerous on the western side dubbed Rocky Field. The hollow lacks a raised rim but is marked by an increase in larger rocks. The distribution of windblown and impact materials within, around, and local to the hollow indicate degradation was mostly by wind stripping of fines from the rim and depositing them inside the hollow, with lesser contributions from impact and mass wasting processes. Rocky Fieldwas likely formed by emplacement of ejecta during a nearby impact event occurring relatively soon after Homestead hollowformed. Most degradation occurred during the first ~0.1 Ga after hollow formation. Limited modification over most of hollow history was associated with small pulses of infilling and rock emplacement during/following nearby impact events and very slow weathering of basaltic rocks. Degradation at Homestead hollowis similar to the modification of small craters at the Spiritlanding site in Gusev crater, which shows common geomorphic processes occurred on comparable surfaces in different places on Mars during the last ~1 Ga. Homestead hollowis a degraded impact crater that was modified by mostly eolian and lesser impact and mass‐wasting processesRocks on the western side of the hollow are ejecta emplaced during the formation of a nearby crater relatively early in hollow historyMost hollow degradation occurred during the first ~0.1 Ga after formation, followed by limited exterior stripping and interior infilling