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A crater is a depression that is caused when an object hits a heavenly body, such as the moon. Since the moon has almost no atmosphere - and therefore no wind - the craters that have formed aren't erased over time from erosion (which has occurred here on Earth). The largest crater on the moon, the Aitken basin, is 2,500 km across and 13 km deep.

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