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    for the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who lived from 1729 to 1781. Lessing is south of the larger crater Matisse. Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data...
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    This is a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here...
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    This is a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here...
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    Impact craters in the Solar System An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a...
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  • Thumbnail for List of craters on Mars: O–Z
    This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here contains...
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    Crater Lake (Klamath: Giiwas) is a volcanic crater lake in south-central Oregon in the Western United States. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National...
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    Callisto, Valhalla (/vælˈhælə/ val-HAL-ə) is the largest multi-ring impact crater in the Solar System. It is named after Valhalla, the hall where warriors...
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    The Chicxulub crater (/tʃiːkʃuːˈluːb/ cheek-shoo-LOOB; Spanish: [tʃikʃuˈlub] ) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its...
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    (millions) of years. Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest...
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    A crater is a landform consisting of a hole or depression on a planetary surface, usually caused either by an object hitting the surface, or by geological...
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    Cantor is a lunar impact crater that is located on the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The outer rim of the crater has a distinctly hexagonal...
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    lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is situated less than a crater diameter to the northeast of the larger crater Hecataeus...
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    Callisto is the oldest and most heavily cratered in the Solar System. Its surface is completely covered with impact craters. It does not show any signatures...
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    Daedalus is a prominent crater located near the center of the far side of the Moon. The inner wall is terraced, and there is a cluster of central peaks...
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    meteorite impact crater in Chad, Africa. The exposed remnant of the crater is 12.6 km (7.8 mi) in diameter and its age is estimated to be less than 345 million...
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    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...
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  • 1,624 craters (31.2%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%)   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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    Gertrude /ˈɡɜːrtruːd/ is the largest known crater on Uranus's moon Titania. A peak-ring impact basin, it is roughly 326–400 kilometers across, 1/5 to 1/4...
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    Pingualuit Crater (French: Cratère des Pingualuit; from Inuit "pimple"), formerly called the "Chubb Crater" and later the "New Quebec Crater" (French:...
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    ridges and valleys and a number of impact craters of about 20 km (12 mi) diameter are visible, but it is less cratered than nearby Pandora, Epimetheus, and...
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  • Newporte is a meteorite crater in North Dakota, United States. It is 3.2 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 500 million years (Cambrian...
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    Wolfe Creek Crater is a well-preserved meteorite impact crater (astrobleme) in Western Australia. It is accessed via the Tanami Road 150 km (93 mi) south...
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    The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Kiowa County, Kansas. The oval crater is 50 feet (15 m) in...
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    subsidence crater is a hole or depression left on the surface of an area which has had an underground (usually nuclear) explosion. Many such craters are commonly...
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    it has no impact craters; impact craters accumulate after that at a rate that is assumed known. Consequently, counting how many craters of various sizes...
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    Petrarch is a crater on Mercury. This crater is located within the distorted terrain on the opposite side of the planet from the Caloris Basin. It was...
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  • impact crater in Alberta, Canada, named for a rural area west of the Cypress Hills. It is 10 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 65...
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  • Chukcha is an impact crater in Taimyr Peninsula, Russia. It is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 70 million years...
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    a meteorite crater in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 400 million...
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    zone on Mars, known as fretted terrain, lies between highly cratered highlands and less cratered lowlands. The younger lowland exhibits steep walled mesas...
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