Which of these lunar features is the oldest?
1. maria basins
2. lunar highlands
3. rayed craters like Copernicus
4. lunar soil
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Which of these lunar features is the oldest? 1. maria basins 2. lunar highlands 3. rayed craters like Copernicus 4. lunar soil
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Maria
The lunar highlands were formed about 4.5 billion years ago, they are the oldest features (or regions) on the moon. The maria were formed some 3.5 billion years ago, erasing and covering the 'highlands' in the regions they formed.
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Which of these lunar features is the oldest? 1. maria basins 2. lunar highlands 3. rayed craters like Copernicus 4. lunar soil
Lunar highlands
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Lunar geology is the study of the moons geological features; moons crust, rocks etc. and regular geology is the study of earths features; soil, rocks, land forms.
The Lunar Highlands, which are 4.4 billion years old.
The word mare is roughly translated from the French to mean ocean or sea. There are large open basaltic areas on the moon, and they are "vast" in a way similar to the sea. And it was natural for those naming the features to apply this term to some of them. There are a number of features like this on the moon, and you can learn more by using the links below. The first link is to the lunar mare where the term is defined, and the second one is to a list of lunar mare.