Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft captures moon craters in stunning flyby footage (video)

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You can spot the two large moon craters in a small telescope.

"Complex craters occur above a certain diameter crater, the cutoff diameter is dependent on gravity, so it varies from planet to planet ," NASA officialsof Kepler. Simpler lunar craters, which look like a bowl, tend to be less than 6 miles in size and complex craters are somewhat larger.

As for Gassendi, Apollo 17 was tentatively targeted for a region south of the central peaks rising in the crater, with the hopes of finding ancient rocks in the highlands, according to NASA. These rocks may have helped to date not only the impact that caused Gassendi, but for the nearby Humorum basin.

 

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