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Chapter 20, Problem 1P
Look at the right top and bottom images in Figure 20-2. Count the number of craters in each image. Based on your result, which portion of the Moon’s surface do you judge to be relatively older, and why?
Figure 20·2 Details visible in photographs show that meteorite impacts covered the Moon with craters long ago, and then lava flooded out and filled the largest basins, covering the craters there with smooth plains.
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FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRON.-MINDTAP (2 TERM)
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