Backyard Universe: Lunar craters honor explorers
Craters on the moon are perhaps the moon’s signature features.All are generally small enough to prevent us from seeing them while gazing at the moon with our unaided eyes.But point even a small telescope moonward and its surface appears riddled with craters of all sizes. There are regions of craters on top of craters. Some are simple depressions while some show an intricate series of brilliant “rays” as material was ejected from the impacts that formed the […]
