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a scar the size of a city, left by something that only made one first impression.
means a bowl-shaped depression formed when an object from space slams into a planet or moon at cosmic speed.
from from latin cratera, a mixing bowl — the greeks named the shape long before anyone imagined it falling from the sky.
speed at impactoften over 40,000 mph on arrival
energy releasecan exceed thousands of nuclear bombs at once
biggest on earthvredefort crater spans roughly 300 kilometers
erosion enemyearth loses craters faster than the moon does