SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -A crater is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion. Impact Craters. Craters produced by the collision of a meteorite with the Earth (or another planet or moon) are called impact craters.

Detailed explanation-2: -An impact crater is formed when an object like an asteroid or meteorite crashes into the surface of a larger solid object like a planet or a moon. To form a true impact crater, this object needs to be traveling extremely fast-many thousands of miles per hour!

Detailed explanation-3: -Craters are roughly circular, excavated holes made by impact events. The circular shape is due to material flying out in all directions as a result of the explosion upon impact, not a result of the impactor having a circular shape (almost no impactors are spherical).

Detailed explanation-4: -Also called: impact crater, meteorite crater (on the surface of the earth, moon, etc.)

Detailed explanation-5: -Impact craters tend to be circular in shape. This does not mean the object that created the crater was circular. Instead, the circular shape happens because there is typically a massive explosion upon impact. This explosion causes material to fly out in all directions.