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His lumpy bed looked like the cratered surface of the moon.
Ida was the second asteroid to be observed close-up by a spacecraft, when the Space Probe Galileo took pictures as it flew by on Aug 28, 1993. These pictures showed not only that Ida has a cratered surface, but also that it has a small moon, called Dactyl, which is about 1.6 x 1.2 km in diameter and orbiting 90 km away from the asteroid.
Callisto, the outermost of the four Galilean moons, has an old surface that is perhaps the most heavily cratered of any object in the solar system.
Pluto's surface is heavily cratered.
The missiles cratered the empty fields.
Little damage was inflicted by their missiles, leaving behind only cratered fields.
The photos show the oldest terrain spotted on Pluto, which is heavily cratered, as well as newer terrain characterized by icy plains.
The new topographical data shows a more complex moon than previously thought, one bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its turbulent early history. The record of those ancient bombardments, which also pummeled the young Earth, is preserved in the moon's heavily cratered surface.
The far side of the moon is rougher and more cratered than the side we see from Earth.
The planet had a cratered surface.
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The Mariner photos showed large areas of the red planet to have a much-cratered surface strikingly like that of the moon. Now the computers have clarified some previously undecipherable closeups taken by Mariner 6.
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