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a planet's permanent record of every bad day it never saw coming
means A bowl-shaped hollow in a surface, made by an impact, an explosion, or the open mouth of a volcano.
from From the Greek 'krater,' a large bowl in which the Greeks mixed their wine with water at feasts. Latin borrowed it as 'crater,' and the shape — a wide, rounded basin — eventually got handed to the gaping mouths of volcanoes and, much later, to the scars left by meteorites. So every impact crater is named, distantly, after a party bowl.
- origin word
- Greek for mixing bowl, used for wine
- deepest known
- South Pole–Aitken on the Moon, 8km deep
- earthly scar
- Chicxulub crater helped end the dinosaurs
- some glow
- volcanic lava lakes fill craters with molten fire
- on Mars
- thousands named after dead scientists and small towns
chicxulub crater — 66 million year old impact site in mexico that killed the dinosaurs
barringer meteor crater — 50,000 year old impact crater in arizona, 570 feet deep
vredefort crater — 2 billion year old largest verified impact crater in south africa, 118 miles wide