OtterKnow Kids EncyclopediaIf you look at the Moon through binoculars, you can see it is covered in bumpy circles called craters! These craters were made when space rocks smashed into the Moon a long time ago. Some craters are tiny, and some are enormous.
The Moon has no air or weather to wear away the craters, so they stay there forever. Some craters are billions of years old! The biggest crater on the Moon is called the South Pole-Aitken Basin, and it is over 1,500 miles across. Astronauts who visited the Moon walked among the craters and collected rocks from them.
- There are millions of craters on the Moon.
- The dark spots you can see on the Moon are actually giant, flat areas that filled with melted rock from ancient volcanoes long ago.
- Earth has craters too, but rain, wind, and plants cover most of them up over time!
