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The only weathering and erosion on the Moon is caused by what that strike its surface?
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There are two; sunlight, and meteoroids. Sunlight heats the lunar rocks to "fairly hot" during the day, and when the Sun sets, the rocks cool - and crack. 4 billion years of heat & cool cycles could cause quite a bit of breakage.
The other erosive factor is meteoroids. Since the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere to slow them down, rocks strike the Moon at orbital velocities; during meteor showers, the Moon is hit as much as the Earth is. NASA has created a movie of 100 strikes that were bright enough to be seen on Earth.
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Why is the earth's surface not covered with crater?
Weathering and erosion tend to level out crater features, whether impact or volcanic, over time. The atmosphere also protects the surface from many meteor impact events, by burning them up before they strike.
How Does wind causes weathering?
Wind carries dust and other small particles which can strike their many tiny blows on a surface and cause the surface to wear away to some extent, increasingly so as time goes on.
Do strike slip faults only occur in California?
No. They can form anywhere on Earth's surface / within the lithosphere that is affected by shear stress. For example the fault that caused the 2010 Haitian earthquake was a strike slip fault.
Meteorites that strike the moons surface cause which surface feature?
meteorites or other objects strike the moon they creat
What was the Boston police strike for?
wat caused the Boston police strike?
What was the Boston police strike?
wat caused the Boston police strike?
What was the first American probe to strike the Moon's surface?
Ranger 4 was the first American probe to strike the moon's surface.
What caused the Wave Hill strike?
The bad and unfair living conditions caused the wave hill cattle station strike.
Which form of precipitation is defined as raindrops that bounce when they strike a surface?
Sleet is the form of precipitation defined as raindrops that bounce when they strike a surface.
What type of fault is caused by shear faults?
A strike slip fault.
What strike caused traffic west of Chicago to halt?
The 1894 Pullman Strike.
Why was the homestead strike of 1892 bad for the labor unions?
That's what caused the strike.
