It measures approximately 19 kilometres (12 miles) in diameter, and is surrounded by complex ejecta lobes, which are a distinctive characteristic of martian impact craters.

[1][2] Many craters at equatorial and mid-latitudes on Mars have this form of ejecta morphology, which is thought to arise when the impacting object melts ice in the subsurface.

Liquid water in the ejected material forms a muddy slurry that flows along the surface, producing the characteristic lobe shapes.

It was well photographed by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s, and as a consequence its image appears in many books and articles of the era as a type example of Martian impact crater morphology.

The distinctive lobate ejecta pattern of craters like Yuty gave rise to a confusing terminology among Mars researchers.