7 Most Intriguing Craters In Our Solar System

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19 June 2024

Here's a short list through some of the more intriguing impacts across our solar system, according to NASA


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Mercury is riddled with craters, but none as spectacular as the Caloris Basin


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In 2019, a NASA glaciologist discovered a possible impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland


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The Moon's pockmarked face offers what may be humanity's most familiar view of impact craters


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A fresh crater at the south pole shows a two-tone pattern: light dust from the windblown shockwave surrounds a darker area where the impact dug up underlying dark sand


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On July 4, 2005, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft trained its instruments on an 816-pound (370-kilogram) copper impactor as it smashed into comet Tempel 1


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Saturn's moon Mimas has a super laser-looking depression which is 130-kilometer wide crater named for the moon's discoverer, William Herschel


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The Welsh name of this crater on Jupiter's ocean moon Europa looks like a tongue-twister, but it is perhaps easiest pronounced as “pool”


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