Moon landscape features

Usage examples of craters.

He took a transparent stencil with many circles and placed it over the various craters in the visible part of the screen.

Small craters, filled to the rim with sand, slipped by underneath the low flying machine from time to time.

Some craters had remained visible only because of the central cone of a volcano extinguished for many centuries.

They would creep irresistibly from the moist craters of the iceteroid impacts, proliferating relentlessly amid the storms and earthquakes of terraformation, surviving the floods as permafrost melted.

Mars grew more hospitable to life, the gardens would surge from their craters and spread across the surface.

Already, with the progress of science and taste, many of the oldest craters had become ecoaesthetic embarrassments.

We ran out there, and we were running through craters and everything else and we threw the packs in.

Often, at the summit of volcanoes, the old craters close and new ones open.

Light spilled on the unfolding landscape below, fingers of light interspersed with inky black shadows hundreds of kilometers long, the deeper craters still pools of darkness.

It seemed to pool in the deeper maria and craters, flowing down the contours of the land like a morning mist on Earth.

Low in the west, the slow Sun blazed hot on the new mountains the machines had piled up around the spaceport, and filled the craters with ink.

Casey turned to look out across the shadowed craters at the huge globe of Earth, the green Americas blazing on the sunlit face, Europe and Africa only a shadow against the dark.

We watched them bury themselves under the rubble, leaving only a row of new craters that might become a puzzle, I thought, to later astronomers.

There are craters within craters on his vaguely metallic-looking carapace.