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Top 10 Cool Moon Facts
posted: 30 June 2005 06:41 am
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NUMBER 7
Punching bag
The Moon's heavily cratered surface is
the result of intense pummeling by space rocks between 4.1 billion and 3.8 billion
years ago.
The scars of this war, seen as craters,
have not eroded much for two main reasons: The Moon is not geologically very
active, so earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain-building don't destroy the landscape
as they do on Earth; and with virtually no atmosphere there is no wind or rain,
so very little surface erosion occurs.
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