Mercury is the most cratered planet in the solar system.
No, they're the least cratered. That's why they look smooth.
Without an atmosphere to protect it from meteor impacts, the planet Mercury is heavily cratered. This includes the basin Caloris, which is a 1500-km wide impact crater with associated lava flows and crustal splitting.
Mercury has a great many craters and is the smallest planet in the solar system, its diameter being about 38 percent of the diameter of Earth but more than double the diameter of the dwarf planet Pluto.
The surface of Mercury is a bit like that of the moon. There is no real atmosphere as the planet is too close to the sun and is not massive enough. It is pitted with billions of craters, from meteor impacts, though as there is to atmosphere, there is no weather to errode the features away over time.
Cratered.
Mercury is the most cratered planet in the solar system.
No, they're the least cratered. That's why they look smooth.
The planet Mercury has the most similar cratered surface compared to the moon.
This tells you that, because Mercury is very cratered, it must have no protection against the asteroids coming in. So, it is basically telling you that Mercury has a very thin atmosphere
Mercury is very cratered, like the Moon.
Without an atmosphere to protect it from meteor impacts, the planet Mercury is heavily cratered. This includes the basin Caloris, which is a 1500-km wide impact crater with associated lava flows and crustal splitting.
Mercury
1.000 time saller
Well cratered ... worse than the moon.
Mercury.
Mercury has a great many craters and is the smallest planet in the solar system, its diameter being about 38 percent of the diameter of Earth but more than double the diameter of the dwarf planet Pluto.