Author name: Tanya Garner

How Do We Know That The Maria Formed More Recently Than The Highlands On The Moon?

Scientists can tell this happened recently, in geological terms, because the maria have fewer impact craters than the highland areas. How do we know the Moon’s maria are younger than its highlands? Further, different parts of the surface of the Moon exhibit different amounts of cratering and therefore are of different ages: the maria are …

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