Surface Features of the moon
The moon has a large number of craters on its surface due to large rocks, asteroids, boulders, and comets that have hit the surface. The moon also has multiple large, dark, flat plains called “Maria”, which is from the Latin for the word “seas”; “mare” is the singular of the word. When the solar system formed, quite a bit of material was left over and most of the material, gas, dust, small “rocks”, and other larger bodies, eventually crashed into the Sun, a moon, or another planet, this is what has helped to shape the surface of the moon over time. Since the moon has no atmosphere, plate tectonics, or active volcanoes, there isn’t anything that can erase the craters that have been left over from the moon being smashed into by other smaller bodies. In the picture to the left there is a lunar crater called Copernicus and if you look carefully you will see that outside of where the crater hit there are still disturbances on the surface, those are from pieces of material that were discharged out from the crater and fell onto the surface surrounding the crater. This crater is about 93 kilometers across (about 58 miles), and in the middle you can see what looks like a grouping of mountains. In this next picture down below you can see the crater and mountain peaks even better, those mountain peaks are about 1 kilometer in height (about 0.6 miles).
Elise Nelson