What is "craterlet"

Usage examples of "craterlet".

He was sitting upright in the craterlet we named Agamemnon, just over on darkside.

The circle was the bottom of a craterlet in one of the hills over Wilsonburg.

Han screamed something entirely inadequate to the occasion and plunged away to his left into the lumpy ruin of old lava formations and sullenly steaming craterlets, Chewie at his heels and all the legions of darkness shrieking behind.

I take it the reader has seen pictures or photographs of the moon and that I need not describe the broader features of that landscape, those spacious ring-like ranges vaster than any terrestrial mountains, their summits shining in the day, their shadows harsh and deep, the gray disordered plains, the ridges, hills, and craterlets, all passing at last from a blazing illumination into a common mystery of black.

The map showed five fairly large craterlets within Plato, and nearly a hundred smaller features.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago there appeared in The Strolling Astronomer, the official organ of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, a report to the effect that some of the craterlets on the floor of Plato were sometimes visible and sometimes not with the same instrument under apparently identical conditions of atmospheric transparency and seeing.

Its surface was a montage of big and little pits, craterlets left by interstellar dust grains pushing their way through the ramscoop field.

It was littered with crumbling fragments of debris, and pockmarked with many craterlets, dozens, perhaps hundreds.

It looked like a lumpy potato, pockmarked with craterlets from the impacts of smaller rocks.

A few minor craterlets scattered around the area, and the ubiquitous rocks strewn across the ground.

There were enough craterlets and rocks strewn across the ground to cause trouble if he got careless, he knew.

I caught up with her inside of ten miles, at the foot of a massive cliff that reared up out of a system of tangled craterlets just at the bottom of the huge upthrust of land that rose to Tycho's rim.

And rising from the smoothness of the floor, the strange typical Moon formation—the crazy, jagged peaklets that looked like a melted candle, the tiny craterlets, the obscene-looking mounds, and the crisscross of tiny crevasses.

The craterlets might be sentry posts on this lowest embankment of the City’s defenses….

Its surface was so pocked with craterlets and covered in crags arid gullies and cracks that it was hard to study anyone feature on the surface before it got lost among all the others.