Marias, craters, and highlands.
Asteroids and gravity create the surface features on the moon.
Asteroids and gravity create the surface features on the moon.
The three main surface features on the moon are craters, mountains, and maria (large dark plains). Craters are formed by impacts from meteoroids, mountains are elevated areas caused by the moon's crust being compressed, and maria are low-lying plains formed by ancient volcanic activity.
craters
Because the moon has no atmosphere and no liquid water on its surface, it has no weather and no life. Weather, and living things, both tend to change existing surface features. So, features don't last as long on the Earth as they do on the moon.
gravity
Impact craters
Craters and the "maria".
Geologic features are any physical features on the surface of a planet or moon, or of the rocks exposed at the surface, by any geologic process.
As the Moon is a globe, it has only one surface.
Galileo was the first astronomer to describe the surface features of the moon. Using a telescope, he observed mountains, valleys, and craters on the moon's surface, challenging the prevailing belief that celestial bodies were perfect and unblemished. His observations supported the idea that the moon and other celestial bodies were physical bodies similar to Earth.
Maria, crates, highlands. :)