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What are lunar craters?

Craters are depressions on the surface of a cosmic body that have rounded outlines. The size of the craters is from 1 meter to 250 kilometers. Large and medium-sized craters on the Moon have been known since the first telescopic observations of this celestial body. They bear the names of famous scientists: Aristotle, Herodotus, Hipparchus, Copernicus, Kepler, etc.

Many large craters are surrounded by gently sloping ridges and have a flat bottom, in the middle of which a central hill rises. Others are in the form of funnels, which are formed during explosions. Numerous small craters cover the entire lunar surface and even the bottom and ramparts of large craters. Craters, even of an unusual shape, were formed when meteorites fell on the surface of the Moon.

Meteorites also owe their origin to the long bright rays that radiate from some large craters (for example, from the craters Tycho, Copernicus, Kepler) over distances of several hundred and even thousands of kilometers. They are chains of small craters covered with fine-grained matter that strongly scatters sunlight.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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