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lunar crater

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Noun1.lunar craterlunar crater - a crater on the Earth's Moon
crater - a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb


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Instead, they spent one recent class in the university's new $125,000 ``smart lab,'' poring over computerized images of the moon and calculating the age of the lunar craters.
At longer infrared wavelengths, a spectrometer will map the minerals on the moon's surface and look for evidence confirming that water ice resides within permanently shadowed lunar craters.
The image, which shows a small area on the rim of a 56-kilometer-wide lunar crater called Taruntius, resolves features as small as 130 meters across.
 
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