lunar crater
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impact crater on the surface of Earth's moon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical phenomenon
- Subclass of
- impact crater
- Location
- Moon
- Image
- Plato lunar crater map.jpg
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- Commons category
- Craters on the Moon
- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- topic's main category
- Category:Impact craters on the Moon
- equivalent class
- dbpedia.org/ontology/LunarCrater
- has list
- list of craters on the Moon
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox lunar crater or mare
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Encyclopedic overview
The crater Webb, as seen from Lunar Orbiter 1. Several smaller craters can be seen in and around Webb. Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10.
Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical Union currently recognizes 9,137 craters, of which 1,675 have been dated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lunar crater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.