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Why are there mountains/mounds in the centre of craters on the lunar surface?
From clear images of moon's surface we can see many of the craters have small mountains/mounds (or montes) in the centre. So, what is the mechanism behind the formation of these mountains and which ...
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How deep a crater could an impactor spacecraft cause on Mars?
What would the best way be to crash an impactor into Mars with greatest topological effect? And how deep a crater could it excavate?
Mars missions to date have been designed to approach the planet at ...
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Why does the Moon's Anaxagoras crater seem sort of jumbled?
Now that very high resolution imagery of the Moon's whole north, above 60 °N, can be viewed on one giant awesome zoomable map, I've been taking a close look at a number of craters. Anaxagoras sticks ...
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Any explanation for morphology of within crater formations on the northern Nili Patera caldera of the Syrtis Major volcanic plain of Mars?
The Nili Patera region has enjoyed fairly good media exposure recently, ever since high detail HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) photographs hit the Internet, showing fabulous sand ...
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