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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. national monument and national preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho. It is along US 20 ( concurrent with US 93 and US 26 ), between the small towns of Arco and Carey , at an average elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea level .
Several smaller craters can be seen in and around Webb. Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10. 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 large and relatively young lunar impact crater Tycho taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. [1]This is a list of named lunar craters.The large majority of these features are impact craters.
Craters of the Moon may refer to: Lunar craters, craters on the Earth's Moon; Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, a volcanic preserve in Idaho;
The surface around Tycho is replete with craters of various sizes, many overlapping still older craters. Some of the smaller craters are secondary craters formed from larger chunks of ejecta from Tycho. It is one of the Moon's brightest craters, [3] with a diameter of 85 km (53 mi) [4] and a depth of 4,700 m (15,400 ft). [1]
Craters of the Moon Thermal Area (or Karapiti in Māori language) is a region with geothermal activity north of Taupō, New Zealand. It is a part of Wairakei , the largest geothermal field in New Zealand, with a surface area of about 25 km 2 , which lies in the Taupō Volcanic Zone .
Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon.Named for Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, [3] it lies in the southern hemisphere, to the west of the large crater Gagarin, and northwest of Milne.
Pickering believed that the Moon had a thicker atmosphere and reported seeing climatic variations such as frost and snow, leading him to refer to the crater as the "Gardens of Eratosthenes". [3] Later his views would change, and he would come to believe that the vegetation was instead "swarms of animal life", [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which he often referred ...