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Crater is a small, faint constellation in the southern hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "cup.
Crater, the Cup, while associated with Corvus, also represents the wine goblet of Dionysus.
Crater contains a number of faint galaxies.
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Crater
Crater is a faint constellation best seen in April.
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Crater
Abbreviation: Crt
Genitive: Crateris
Translation: The Cup
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Most craters on the Moon that have diameters less than about 15 kilometers have a simple, bowl-like form.
Impact craters are depressions found on astronomical bodies that result from high-velocity impacts with smaller bodies. An example would be the Barringer crater in Arizona which was caused by a meteorite impact about 50,000 years ago.
Crater
Abbreviation: Crt English name: Cup Coordinates see Stellar data
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In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body.
Impact Craters
An Impact Crater (impact basin, astrobleme or sometimes crater) is a circular or oval depression on a surface, usually referring to a planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body, ...
Crater Modification
The majority of impact craters on Venus (62%) are pristine and unmodified [Schaber et al., 1992]. This indicates that impact craters have not been significantly altered by surficial processes.
Craters in Transition
Magellan's radar system detected few impact in the process of being resurfaced by volcanism. is the largest of these craters in transition, with a diameter of 63 km (39 mi).
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Impact Crater
The crew members of Apollo 11 photographed this large crater as they circled the moon in 1969. Image Credit: NASA
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Corvus and Crater, two adjacent constellations on the back of Hydra, shown in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
Aristarchus (crater)
A conspicuous lunar crater, about 45 km (28 miles) in diameter and 3.7 km (2.3 miles), surrounded by a system of bright rays, which has been the reported site of transient lunar phenomena in the form of reddish glows.
The Barringer Crater
This picture shows the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, a crater slightly more than a kilometer across which scientists believe was made by a meteorite approximately 49,000 years ago.
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A portion of an image of Victoria Crater taken by the spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover Opportunity can be seen along with the tracks that it made as it drove to its position on the crater rim.
Named stars in Corvus and Crater:: (Greek alphabet)
Alchiba (α Crv), Algorab (δ Crv), Alkes (α Crt), Gienah Ghurab (γ Crv), Kraz (β Crv), Minkar (ε Crv).
Crater is one of unofficial names of the oldest districts of the port city of Aden. Its official name is Seera. It is situated in a crater of an ancient volcano which forms Shamsan Mountains....
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CRATERING RATES
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Cratering on the Moon
Craters in the Tycho-Clavius region of the Moon.
Crater- bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteoroid; depression around the orifice of a volcano
Culmination- the maximum altitude of a celestial body from the celestial equator ...
Crater chain: Several craters along a general line.
Crust: The outermost layer of a planet or moon, above the mantle.
Dark mantle deposits: Deposits of dark glass on the Moon, possibly products of volcanic fire fountaining.
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A circular divot caused by the impact of a rocky object on a celestial body. The size of the crater depends on the mass and velocity of the incoming object.
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a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of an asteroid or meteoroid. Also the depression around the opening of a volcano.
Crater - A roughly circular feature on the surface of a solar system body caused by the impact of an asteroid or comet
Crater Density - The number of craters of a given size per unit area of the surface of a solar system body ...
Crater (impact crater). A generally round depression created by the impact of a large compact mass on a planet or moon. Impact craters mark the Moon, also Mercury and Mars, and many satellites in the solar system.
CRATER CHAIN - Several craters along a general line that may be overlapping, touching, or separate from one another. A crater chain, or catena, is typically the result of either secondary impacts or volcanic activity.
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Intercrater Plain
The relatively smooth terrain on Mercury.
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Impact craters
Lunar crater Daedalus on the Moon's far side
The Moon's surface is marked by impact craters[18] which form when asteroids and comets collide with the lunar surface.
Meteor Craters
The surface of Venus has been smoothed by recent lava flows and by interaction with the corrosive atmosphere. However, there are various examples of meteor craters.
Oberon's heavily cratered surface has probably been stable since its formation. It has far more and larger craters than do Ariel and Titania. Some of the craters have rays of ejecta similar to those seen on Callisto.
Crater Aurelia. Since this is a radar image, the rough parts of the crater appear very bright (the rim and the central peak in this case). This crater is about 32 km wide measuring from the rims.
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Crater, the Cup, ranks among the dimmest of the Classical constellations. Although not as bright as the Constellation's Delta Crateris, Alpha Crateris was given first rank by Bayer; its proper name is Alkes, Arabic for the "Wine Cup.
Crater Julius Caesar is irregularly shaped (not circular) and is just to the west of Mare Tranquillitatis. Its very dark floor causes it to stand out.
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A depression in a moon or planet's surface, usually caused by something crashing into it at speed.
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A bowl-shaped depression caused by a comet or meteorite colliding with the surface of a planet, moon, or asteroid. On geologically active moons and planets (like Earth), craters can result from volcanic activity.
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Crater - the cup
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CRATER RAYS
Crater rays are lines of ejecta radiating from a crater.
CREPE RING
The Crêpe ring (also called the C ring) is the inner ring of three major rings; it is smaller and less visible than the A and B rings.
A crater formed on the surface of a terrestrial planet or a satellite by the impact of a meteoroid or planetesimal.
inclination - (n.)
Of an orbit, the angle of the plane of the orbit with respect to the ecliptic plane.
The craters on Mercury are very much like those on the Moon. The smallest craters are bowl-shaped, with raised rims and blankets of ejecta surrounding these rims and thinning rapidly away from the crater.
The craters were clearly due to a grazing impact of a set of objects at a very low angle, which calculations show to be a rare occurrence.
IMPACT CRATER
Impact craters are the remains of collisions between an asteroid or meteorite and a planet or moon.
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Largest Crater in the Solar System
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Asteroid Ceres
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Asteroid Apophis
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Southern cratered highlands
Sparsely cratered plains
Surface composition
Valleys and lakes
Outflow channels and oceans
Valles Marineris
Tharsis and Elysium
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The large crater which you can see is named Herschel. It is so big compared to the size of Mimas, that what ever hit the moon probably just about tore it apart.
HOW SMALL A CRATER CAN WE SEE ON THE MOON?
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ALKES (Alpha Crateris). Among the dimmest of all classical constellations is Crater, the Cup, which with Corvus, the Crow, rides the back of Hydra, the Water Serpent.
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Mars craters (NASA Thesaurus) Craters from meteoritic impact on the surface of Mars.
Formation of Craters
Friction with the atmosphere has little effect in slowing down a very large, fast-moving meteorite. When it reaches the earth, it strikes with tremendous force and becomes buried beneath the surface.
lunar crater A depression, usually circular, on the surface of the moon, usually with a raised rim called a ringwall. Craters range in size up to 250 kilometers in diameter. The largest craters are sometimes called walled plains.
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