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Helen Brand, Senior Beamline Scientist - Powder Diffraction, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

5 incredible craters that will make you fall in love with the grandeur of our Solar System

Occator crater, Ceres. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Impact cratering happens on every solid body in the Solar System. In fact, it is the dominant process affecting the surfaces on most extraterrestrial bodies today.

On Earth, however, such craters are often lost over time by active geological processes, but elsewhere in the Solar System there are some truly majestic examples of impact craters preserved for all to see.

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