COPERNICUS
Jan 27, 2022
3 minutes
If you’ve ever seen a documentary about the Moon, you’ll have seen a scientist enthusiastically hurling a stone into a tray full of flour to demonstrate how impact craters are formed. Of all the hundreds of thousands of craters on the Moon, one looks exactly like the feature these dramatic demonstrations produce: a deep, sharp-edged pit, like a skull’s eye socket, surrounded by rays of debris.
Copernicus looks exactly like
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