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Tempel 1
Craters can be seen on the surface of Comet Tempel 1 in this image, captured during the Stardust-NExT probe's flyby on Monday.
Figure 3: A lunar topographic map showing the Orientale basin , the largest young impact basin on the Moon. This young basin formed from a projectile that impacted the Moon about 3.8 billion years ago, and penetrated deeply into the lunar crust, ejecting millions of cubic kilometers of material into
Rayed crater
This image shows a small rayed impact crater, about 160 meters in diameter, in the Tharsis region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.Relatively recent impacts form rays of ejecta that spray out radially from the crater. In addition to relatively fine material, large boulders and smaller seconda
