This full moon was near its greatest northern ecliptic latitude, so the southern craters are especially prominent.

There is evidence that the distributions of a wide variety of physical, biological, and man-made phenomena follow a power law, including the sizes of earthquakes, craters on the moon and of solar flares, the foraging pattern of various species, the sizes of activity patterns of neuronal populations, the frequencies of words in most languages, frequencies of family names, the species richness in clades of organisms, the sizes of power outages and wars, and many other quantities.

A census of Triton's craters imaged by Voyager 2 found only 179 that were incontestably of impact origin, compared with 835 observed for Uranus ' moon Miranda, which has only three percent of Triton's surface area.

The boys also find evidence of an ancient lunar civilization, and postulate that the craters of the moon were formed not by impacts from space, but by nuclear bombs that destroyed the alien race.

Its surface is heavily scarred by craters, some of which are extremely large relative to the size of the moon: Pan, the largest crater, measures 100 km across and is at least 8 km deep.

* Dryops ( crater ), a crater on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter ( see List of craters on Callisto )

A number of solar system objects that are mostly to completely invisible to the human eye are reasonably detectable with medium-size binoculars, including larger craters on the Moon ; the dim outer planets Uranus and Neptune ; the inner " minor planets " Ceres, Vesta and Pallas ; Saturn's largest moon Titan ; and the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

* Camaxtli Patera, one of the paterae ( shallow craters ) on the Jovian moon of Io

For a few hours leading up to the first quarter, lunar craters near the line separating lit from unlit areas of the moon form a X figure from the dark craters and their lit rims.

A later Moon Records version of undetermined origin has a pink label with gray moon craters.

* Several craters on Mars ' moon Phobos are named after Lilliputians.

There was an intentionally competitive aspect to this strategy, which was " won " by JPL in the spring of 1968 when it was shown that the problem was caused by the unexpectedly large local gravity anomalies on the moon arising from large ringed maria, mountain ranges and craters on the moon.

As a former U. S. military officer in Phnom Penh reported, " the areas around the Mekong River were so full of bomb craters from B-52 strikes that, by 1973, they looked like the valleys of the moon.

In recognition of his astronomical contributions, craters on the moon and Mars were named after him by the International Astronomical Union.

Image of the moon taken by the Ranger 8 space probe, showing the craters Ritter and Sabine.

There are several impact craters named Herschel in the solar system, although the best known is the huge crater on Saturn's moon Mimas.

Photographs of craters, from either the moon or other planets including our own, can exhibit this phenomenon.

These rings give the crater a somewhat similar appearance to Valhalla crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto, and other craters on Europa.

Silverpit bears a stronger resemblance to Valhalla ( crater ) | Valhalla crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto ( moon ) | Callisto than it does to other terrestrial pit crater | craters

Morris wrote in The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth ( 1972 ) that the craters of the moon were caused by a cosmic battle between the forces of Satan and the armies of the archangel Michael.

Children can earn Stars by playing the games, watching full episodes of Tiny Planets, tagging craters on the moon, reading an eBook, adding a friend in Central Space or completing a mission.

No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.

Several impact craters and massive volcanic activity, such as that in the Deccan Traps, have been dated to the approximate time of the extinction event.

Several other craters also appear to have been formed about the time of the K – T boundary.

Any other craters that might have formed in the Tethys Ocean would have been obscured by tectonic events like the relentless northward drift of Africa and India.

In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse, impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than the surrounding terrain.

This indicates that there should be far more relatively young craters on the planet than have been discovered so far.

Although the Earth ’ s active surface processes quickly destroy the impact record, about 170 terrestrial impact craters have been identified.

Few undersea craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor, the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom, and the subduction of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of plate tectonics.

Since the Earth could be expected to have roughly the same cratering rate as the Moon, it became clear that the Earth had suffered far more impacts than could be seen by counting evident craters.

Complex craters have uplifted centers, and they have typically broad flat shallow crater floors, and terraced walls.

Two impact craters on Olympus Mons have been assigned provisional names by the IAU.

Observations of Mercury's polar regions by radar from Earth and the on-going observations of the Messenger Probe have been consistent with water ice and / or other frozen volatiles being present in permanently shadowed areas of craters in Mercury's polar regions.

The depressions ( cavi ) are probably not impact craters because they are all of similar size and have smooth curves.

Although larger craters have been observed, they are generally thought to be volcanic in nature.

During the flyby, the spacecraft imaged a hemisphere of the asteroid, revealing many large craters that have gouged out depressions in the surface.

Based on Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer ( NS ) data, mission scientists have determined that there is indeed water ice in the polar craters of the Moon.

Terrestrial planets can have canyons, craters, mountains, and volcanoes.

At this time a number of researchers, most notably Eugene M. Shoemaker, ( co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ), conducted detailed studies of a number of craters and recognized clear evidence that they had been created by impacts, specifically identifying the shock-metamorphic effects uniquely associated with impact events, of which the most familiar is shocked quartz.

Controlled-source seismology has been used to map salt domes, faults, anticlines and other geologic traps in petroleum-bearing rocks, geological faults, rock types, and long-buried giant meteor craters.

Several craters have been named.

Since then, numerous impact craters have been identified around the world, though Meteor Crater remains one of the most visually impressive owing to its size, young age, and lack of vegetative cover.

A 206 km² ( 80 miles² ) section of the mountain range is protected by Lamington National Park and has been listed as a World Heritage area in recognition of its " outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and threatened rainforest species.

While numerous impact craters have been confirmed on land or in the shallow seas over continental shelves, no impact craters in the deep ocean have been widely accepted by the scientific community.

The Wabar craters in Arabia may have been created sometime during the past few hundred years.