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Pretty much any tiny dent made on the Moon’s surface is going to stay there. Three processes help Earth keep its surface crater free. The first is called erosion.
Moon craters are formed by volcanism and cratering. Learn how these processes work and how they formed more than 300.000 craters on the Moon.
Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical Union currently recognizes 9,137 craters, of which 1,675 have been dated. [1]
The largest and oldest impact crater in the Solar system is believed to be on the Moon, and it is called the South Pole-Aitken basin, but we cannot see it from Earth because it is on the...
NASA's Artemis program will send astronauts to the lunar south pole by 2024, where there is a giant impact crater. Learn how craters teach us about the history of both the Moon and Earth.
What causes the creation of craters on the moon? Flexi Says: The craters on the Moon were created by the impact of meteoroids. When these space rocks hit the Moon's surface, they caused explosions that carved out large holes, or craters.
About 17% of the Moon’s surface consists of the maria—flat plains of basaltic lava. This view of Mare Imbrium also shows numerous secondary craters and evidence of material ejected from the large crater Copernicus on the upper horizon.
Unlike Earth's surface, the lunar surface is covered with craters. This is because Earth is a dynamic planet, and tectonics, volcanism, seismicity, wind and oceans all play against...
Learn how the moon’s craters and maria were formed by watching a video produced by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team about the evolution of the Moon, tracing it from its origin about 4.5 billion years ago to the Moon we see today.
One reason the moon has craters because it gets hit by objects, small pieces of rocks that come from outer space. These are pieces of asteroids, comets that are flying around in the solar system. When they hit the surface, there’s an impact.