Mercury
Mercury
Mercury
Mercury was studied by the Mariner 10 Probe and has a crater pitted surface.
Mercury was studied by the Mariner 10 Probe and has a crater pitted surface.
The Mariner 10 probe studied the planet Mercury, which has a heavily cratered surface due to impacts from asteroids and meteors. It is the smallest and closest planet to the Sun in our solar system.
The Mariner 10 probe studied the planet Mercury, which has a crater-pitted surface due to impacts from asteroids and comets over billions of years.
Mercury
Marnier 10 studied 2 planets, Venus and Mercury. It studied Venus on it's way to Mercury. Marnier 10 managed 3 fly-bys on Mercury before running out of maneuvering gas.
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.
An explosion. Sometimes, depending on the surface of the planet, it leaves a crater. (75% of Earth is covered with water, and considerable areas of Saturn's moon Titan appear to be covered with some sort of liquid.)
The geology around the Grater of Diamonds was covered by the surface effects of a volcanic pipe which deposited diamonds and indicator minerals there.