Difference between revisions 1211337 and 1241130 on enwikiversity[[Image:Chain of impact craters on Ganymede.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The image shows a chain of craters on Ganymede. Credit: Galileo Project, Brown University, JPL, NASA.]] {{complete}} A '''crater''' may be any large, roughly circular, depression or hole in or beneath the rocky surface of a rocky object. {{experimental}} (contracted; show full)| direction = horizontal | width = 230 | image1 = Caloris basin labeled.png | caption1 = Mercury's Caloris Basin is one of the largest impact features in the Solar System | image2 = Mercury weird terrain.jpg | caption2 = The so-called "Weird Terrain" was formed at the point antipodal to the Caloris Basin impact }} [[Image: MESSENGERxmarksthespot.PNGStevenson crater (MESSENGER).png|thumb|right|200px|This is a MESSENGER image of catena on Mercury. Credit: NASA, JPL, APL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).]] "Mercury's surface is heavily cratered and similar in appearance to Earth's [[Moon]] ... For example, an unusual crater with radiating troughs has been discovered which scientists called "the spider."<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff | title=Scientists see Mercury in a new light | url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080201093149.htm (contracted; show full)[[Category:Physics and Astronomy]] [[Category:Planetary Science]] [[Category:Research]] [[Category:Research projects]] [[Category:Resources last modified in August 2014]] [[Category:Technology]] <!-- interlanguage links --> All content in the above text box is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license Version 4 and was originally sourced from https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1241130.
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