5 incredible craters that will make you fall in love with the grandeur of our Solar System
- Written by: Helen Brand, Senior Beamline Scientist - Powder Diffraction, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Occator crater, Ceres.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDAImpact cratering happens on every solid body in the Solar System. In fact, it is the dominant process affecting the surfaces on most extraterrestrial bodies today.
On Earth, however, such craters are often lost over time by active geological processes, but elsewhere in the Solar System there...
