• Craters of the Moon may refer to: Lunar craters, craters on the Earth's Moon Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, a volcanic preserve in Idaho Craters of the Moon (geothermal site), in New Zealand This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Craters of the Moon. (wikipedia.org)
  • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a United States National Monument in the Snake River Plain of Central Idaho . (wikivoyage.org)
  • If you are a fan of Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho, you and I are not going to see eye to eye on this story. (newsradio1310.com)
  • Much like most movies lately: visiting Craters of the Moon National Monument is worth seeing once, but only to say that you did, you're expected to stay there way longer than you want to, and it doesn't feel worth the price of admission. (newsradio1310.com)
  • It was this remarkable beauty and landscape that caused President Calvin Coolidge to sign a proclamation, establishing the Craters of the Moon as a National Monument on May 2, 1924. (customstickermakers.com)
  • The campground is only 19 miles from Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve, where you can explore vast lava flows, cinder cones and lava tube caves created by ancient volcanoes. (theoutbound.com)
  • If you follow the road past the entrance to Craters of the Moon National Monument, the road to Devil's Orchard will be on your left, marked by a sign. (theoutbound.com)
  • Craters of the Moon National Monument in Southern Idaho is a vast ocean of lava flows, with scattered islands of cinder and splatter cones created by volcanic activity 15,000 years ago. (theoutbound.com)
  • Craters of the Moon National Monument is 1100 square miles of basalt lava and sagebrush. (theoutbound.com)
  • To reach the parking lot at the Inferno Cone Trailhead enter the Craters of the Moon National Monument at the main entrance on the north side of the park off US Highway 26 and go approximately 1.5 miles on the 17 miles Loop Road. (theoutbound.com)
  • Overview This secluded camping area at Craters of the Moon National Monument is the perfect spot for organized groups. (theoutbound.com)
  • Craters of the Moon is a large national monument with an eerie, mystical landscape of lava flows, cinder cones, caves and sagebrush. (wideopenride.net)
  • In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed Craters of the Moon a national monument, protecting what he called "a weird and scenic landscape, peculiar to itself. (wideopenride.net)
  • Formed by either secondary impacts (where the chains lead back to a larger crater), relics of volcanic or geologic fault activity, or by tidally disrupted comets-or-asteroids striking the surface, crater chains are found all over the Solar System, including on Mars, Ganymede, Callisto and possibly even Earth . (bigthink.com)
  • These large impact craters, often referred to as impact basins - formed during the lunar magma ocean solidification more than four billion years ago - should have produced different looking craters, in comparison to those formed later in geologic history," says planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic from Curtin University in Australia. (sciencealert.com)
  • After waiting out a thunderstorm, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocketed off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. (nasa.gov)
  • Astronomers won't be able to directly observe the impact, but scientists hope that images of the crash site can be captured soon after by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, both orbiting the moon. (balkantravellers.com)
  • In this amazing picture, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft slewed 62° (west-to-east) looking across the crater. (nasa.gov)
  • The Moon's Hawke crater, as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (nasa.gov)
  • Topography of Earth's moon generated from data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum regio. (nasa.gov)
  • The points of highest elevation are located on the rim of the basin, and the points of lowest elevation on the lunar surface are located near the epicenter of the crater itself. (brighthub.com)
  • In an unprecedented display of cosmic trash, a skewed rocket object will smash into the far side of the moon on Friday, the first time a spacecraft has accidentally hit the lunar surface. (balkantravellers.com)
  • A close-up view of two components of the Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP) which the Apollo 14 astronauts deployed on the Moon during their first extravehicular activity (EVA). (nasa.gov)
  • So a new study uses the pockmarked lunar surface to trace the history of things smashing into both our moon and Earth, finding signs that our neighborhood got a lot messier about 290 million years ago . (programesecure.com)
  • One of the longest hikes at Craters (none of them are very long), the North Crater trail boasts a view of beautiful red and orange rock along the ridgeline of some massive volcanic craters. (theoutbound.com)
  • This Moon Crater Seder Plate design is inspired by the craters on the moon's surface and is crafted out of polished aluminum. (moderntribe.com)
  • Keen observers watching January's 'super blood wolf Moon' may have observed two rare events for the price of one - a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the Moon's surface. (abc.net.au)
  • Impacts have shaped the Earth and Moon since early in the history of the solar system. (nasa.gov)
  • Now that we know more about the moon and about other planets in our solar system, we now know that craters of the moon is a lot more mars like than it is moon like," said Greg Reed, the lead interpretive ranger at Craters of the Moon. (byui.edu)
  • The South Pole-Aitken Basin is also one of largest known craters in our solar system and has been sparking the imagination of star gazers young and old since the first images of the South Pole-Aitken crater were taken during the middle of the 20th century. (brighthub.com)
  • It looks to be perhaps the most severely cratered body in the solar system. (windows2universe.org)
  • The idea of a global magma ocean on the Moon is by no means new , but the research digs deeper into the potential timeline of magma and asteroid hits - and tries to line it up with what we think we know about what was happening in the Solar System at the time. (sciencealert.com)
  • We have multiple clues as to what's happened to the Moon since it was formed, from Solar System modeling to evidence of impact shocks in rocks that have actually been recovered from the surface by Apollo astronauts. (sciencealert.com)
  • Earth and the moon are close enough on the solar system scale that stray asteroids should crash into each at about the same frequency. (programesecure.com)
  • Arrokoth has a lightly cratered, smooth surface with complex geological features, unlike those on previously visited Solar System bodies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The density of impact craters indicates the surface dates from the formation of the Solar System. (bvsalud.org)
  • The craters on Mercury, hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, the rings around Saturn and much more. (lu.se)
  • In addition to the occasional star party, Craters of the Moon hosts ranger led hikes during the day and evening programs every weekend throughout the summer season. (byui.edu)
  • Those meteorites that hit on land leave behind an impact crater. (nasa.gov)
  • Meteorites continue to strike both the Earth and Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • Throughout their histories, both the Moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites and asteroids, which often leave behind dramatic impact craters. (nasa.gov)
  • According to the study, the Earth and the Moon are constantly hit by meteorites, and analysis of the collisions provides valuable data for scientists. (abc.net.au)
  • The natural hit of meteorites has left the moon punctured with half a billion craters the same size or larger than the ones a booster would make. (balkantravellers.com)
  • Traveling at speeds of more than 5,500 miles per hour (2.5 kilometers per second), the 4-ton rocket's body will plow the surface at a shallow angle, scattering debris and ripping apart a volcanic crater projected to reach 20 to 30 meters (65 ft) to 100 Presented). (balkantravellers.com)
  • When arriving in Arco, do NOT use Google Maps GPS directions to take Road 3100 N to Craters of the Moon / Arco KOA. (koa.com)
  • Arco, the county seat, is eighteen miles northeast of the monument, offers a full range of services, and is considered the gateway town to Craters of the Moon. (customstickermakers.com)
  • Daggatt, McKinlay V., "Craters of the Moon" (2023). (bard.edu)
  • It appears that the mineral composition of this region of the moon may be due to the fact that the crater penetrated the crust of mantle of the moon that exposed the geochemical signature of the Moon's core. (brighthub.com)
  • Current estimates for the depth of the lunar crust place it at approximately 15 km (about 9 mi), and the impact that created this crater could have easily resulted in minerals from the lunar core being deposited on the surface of the South Pole-Aitken Basin. (brighthub.com)
  • 1) The central peaks are shown to be strongly enriched in feldspar and are likely from the upper plagioclase-rich crust of the Moon. (usgs.gov)
  • The impact of the meteorite is thought to have caused fracturing that led to the generation of magma from deep in the crust that helped in later filling the crater and producing the igneous complex (Faggart et. (bartleby.com)
  • The central peak in the Moon's Copernicus crater reveals the complexity of the lunar crust through distinct layering and patchy surface brightness. (nasa.gov)
  • These images compare recent impact craters on the Moon (top) and Earth (below). (nasa.gov)
  • The bright "rays" surrounding the lunar crater show that the impact was relatively recent-less than 500 million years ago. (nasa.gov)
  • Meteor Crater formed from the impact of an iron-nickel asteroid about 46 meters (150 feet) across. (nasa.gov)
  • Layers of exposed limestone and sandstone are visible just beneath the crater rim, as are large stone blocks excavated by the impact. (nasa.gov)
  • Popigai is one of the largest and most well-preserved impact craters on Earth. (nasa.gov)
  • This image shows Gosses Bluff, an impact crater sandwiched between the Macdonnell Range to the north and the James Range to the south in Australia's Northern Territory-it is about 160 km west of Alice Springs. (nasa.gov)
  • It is one of the most studied of the Australian impact craters. (nasa.gov)
  • The craters on the Moon are considered to be impact craters, caused by meteoroids striking the Moon. (answers.com)
  • Women With Impact is a series she began in 2016 of hand-drawn illustrations of the 32 craters named after women. (concordia.ca)
  • A collision like this would account for the wide diameter of surface damage that the was created by the impact, as well as the low depth of the crater itself. (brighthub.com)
  • 4) Olivine, strongly concentrated on the rim, wall, and exterior of the southeastern quadrant of the crater, is commonly associated the impact melt. (usgs.gov)
  • The impact flash on the Moon is visible bottom left. (abc.net.au)
  • Could this have been a meteor impact on the Moon? (abc.net.au)
  • This image shows a very large impact crater on Callisto. (windows2universe.org)
  • In the foreground is a huge impact crater, which extends for almost an entire hemisphere on the surface. (windows2universe.org)
  • The impact is expected to leave a crater anywhere from about 30- to 60-feet wide, sending moon dust in all directions. (wvpe.org)
  • Reddy believes that the unintended impact on the moon should focus attention on the growing issue of space debris. (balkantravellers.com)
  • Chris Newman, professor of space law and policy at Northumbria University, called the impending impact a "warning science" given plans to return humans to the moon. (balkantravellers.com)
  • It is difficult to envision that one of the greatest impact craters on Earth that measures up to 180km wide and 900m deep could just vanish just from sight. (bartleby.com)
  • The impact had left a crater 110 to 170 miles in diameter buried nearly a kilometer underground and sparked massive volumes of ash into Earth's atmosphere. (bartleby.com)
  • If the objects are of differing sizes, collision results in an impact crater on the target body. (bartleby.com)
  • Typical impact velocities of asteroidal objects on the Moon are between 15 and 25 km/sec. (bartleby.com)
  • Ranger 8 image of the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity) area of the Moon taken from 511 km about 4 minutes before surface impact. (nasa.gov)
  • The majority of impact craters are round. (universetoday.com)
  • Impact craters have also since pock-marked this vast basin floor, two of which are the focus of this image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express on 17 December 2013. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Scientists have identified only about 180 impact craters here on Earth, as opposed to hundreds of thousands of lunar impact craters . (programesecure.com)
  • With few exceptions, even the largest craters are eventually destroyed by the processes of plate tectonics. (nasa.gov)
  • The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) acquired high spatial and spectral resolution data of the Aristarchus Plateau with 140 m/pixel in 85 spectral bands from 0.43 to 3.0 m. (usgs.gov)
  • Due to its spectacular high reflectance rays Aristarchus crater has been a popular landform since telescopes were first pointed towards the Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • The Aristarchus crater (about 25 miles or 40 kilometers in diameter) and plateau is one of the most geologically complex areas on the Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • Craters of the Moon was born out of a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. (byui.edu)
  • Eruptions 2,000 years ago at the Craters of the Moon and the Wapi lava fields are among the most recent volcanic activity to take place anywhere in this immense geographic area. (wikivoyage.org)
  • The craters on the Moon are caused by the impacts of meteoroids. (answers.com)
  • Since the Moon is cold and has no volcanoes, virtually all the craters there are the results of impacts. (answers.com)
  • The new research proposes that some of the oldest impacts on the Moon left near-invisible imprints because they were striking a softer surface: The global ocean of magma that covered the Moon in its youth before it cooled and solidified. (sciencealert.com)
  • Asteroid impacts have a bad reputation here on Earth - it's the dinosaurs' signature public relations victory - but it's the moon that really bears the scars of living in our messy neighborhood. (programesecure.com)
  • That's because Earth has an arsenal of forces that slowly wear away the craters left behind by impacts. (programesecure.com)
  • The scientific explanation is that the Moon's craters were caused by meteors, asteroids and comets, while the rilles were caused by lava flows. (answers.com)
  • We learned that the moon has mountains and craters caused by different sized asteroids. (superlativescience.com)
  • Each group had a round container with "moon dust" and a selection of different size "asteroids" (balls). (superlativescience.com)
  • They were instructed to drop different sized asteroids from different heights to see how this affected the size of the craters. (superlativescience.com)
  • LCROSS stands for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft. (bartleby.com)
  • This photograph of the eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • The precious sample of asteroid material was placed in a tightly sealed container and put into a capsule for dropping as the spacecraft flew past the Earth, en route to its next destination, Apophis, another potentially Earth-threatening asteroid, and therefore relatively easy to get to. (castanet.net)
  • The slightly elliptical crater spans roughly 5 kilometers. (nasa.gov)
  • While about 20 have been known since the 1990s, often extending for hundreds of kilometers, many more have been discovered with the advent of LROC and citizen science projects like Moon Zoo . (bigthink.com)
  • This includes the craters on Earth's moon: 1,578 of them have been named and catalogued, but only 32 - just 2 per cent - are named for women. (concordia.ca)
  • People are now living on Earth's Moon since it has been populated and living conditions established in a special dome. (acedmagazine.com)
  • In 1924, explorer Robert Limbert wrote an article for National Geographic about the unique land, and named it Craters of the Moon, as it was thought to resemble the surface of the moon. (byui.edu)
  • The Chinese Chang'e 4 lander, which Landed on the far side of the moon In 2019, it's a long way from watching the scene. (balkantravellers.com)
  • Biking Crater of the Moon National Monument's seven mile loop road provides an intimate experience through a wild landscape.Park at the Visitor's Center. (theoutbound.com)
  • In 1999, sent a special lunar mission The ashes of astronomer Eugene Shoemaker To the "crater of eternal darkness" near the south pole of the moon. (balkantravellers.com)
  • Craters of the Moon is made up primarily of sagebrush grasslands and lava fields, which makes the annual bloom somewhat of a wonderous occasion due to the harsh surroundings. (newsradio1310.com)
  • Since astronauts traveled to the moon instead of geologists, they needed to learn how to retrieve specimens from unfamiliar terrain, and Craters of the Moon was the best place. (byui.edu)
  • She pointed out at least three linear features located in Pluto's north polar region, hummocky and mountainous terrain, craters, the bright region the team has nicknamed the "heart," and the dark stuff that covers much of the planet's equatorial region. (astronomy.com)
  • The Idaho Alpine Club is hosting a hike at Craters of the Moon, on the Wilderness Trail, South of the big loop. (idahoalpineclub.org)
  • Craters is most popular in the summer, when visitors from nearby Sun Valley arrive to hike on sun-baked lava hot enough to melt their shoes.Winter is a particularly quiet season at Craters, and one of the most fun. (theoutbound.com)
  • In fact, the Moon likely formed when a proto-planet (likely the size of Mars) crashed into the Earth over 4.5 billion years ago. (nasa.gov)
  • Our current idea is the Moon was formed when an object the size of Mars collided with the body that would become the Earth. (castanet.net)
  • This newly released Mars Express image shows craters within the Hellas Basin in the southern highlands of Mars. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Boulders formed from compressed lunar dust and soil litter the crater floor. (nasa.gov)
  • While craters young and old litter its surface, large numbers of catenae , or crater chains, can be found as well on both the near and far sides. (bigthink.com)
  • Her project envisions female scientists strapping those 3D printouts onto the bottom of their shoe and performing meditative walks, leaving imprints of the craters in the ground behind them. (concordia.ca)
  • As the Moon ages and the surface cools, it becomes harder, and the bombardment imprints are a lot more noticeable by remote sensing. (sciencealert.com)
  • The collision initially formed a crater over 1,200 meters (4,000) feet across and 210 meters (700 feet) deep. (nasa.gov)
  • at least two of the Moon's most prominent chains - the Davy Chain and the Abulfeda Chain - likely formed from such an object's collision with the Moon. (bigthink.com)
  • For example, in the foreground and around the crater rim, polygons of patterned ground are visible which indicates the presence of water - this pattern occurs when fine-grained and porous wet soil freezes. (scitechdaily.com)
  • According to that proclamation, Craters of the Moon's purpose is "to preserve an area of unusual scientific and educational value and interest. (customstickermakers.com)
  • While the park's landscape varies tremendously from the celestial body after which it was named, it was nevertheless visited in 1969 by Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Joe Engle and Eugene Cernan who explored the lava landscape in order to learn the basics of volcanic geology in preparation for future trips to the moon. (wikivoyage.org)
  • Carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • The rock samples brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts and some robotic space vehicles are certainly less processed, but are they original? (castanet.net)
  • The trail surfaces vary a lot when hiking down into the crater, from deep, soft, loose cinders and sand to steep rocky trails. (temptationtours.com)
  • There are two main trails into the crater or park. (temptationtours.com)
  • On the Moon, however, craters are virtually permanent. (nasa.gov)
  • Most of the moons and planets formed by accretion of rocky material and volatiles out of the primitive solar nebula and soon thereafter they differentiated. (windows2universe.org)
  • Craters of the Moon is home to lava beds, caves and unforgettable skies. (byui.edu)
  • Craters of the Moon has four caves to explore: Indian Tunnel, Dewdrop Cave, Boy Scout Cave and Beauty Cave. (byui.edu)
  • Oblique view of Archimedes crater taken by the Apollo 15 metric camera. (vias.org)
  • During the Apollo era, massive Saturn 5 rocket objects were directed to the surface so that instruments placed on the surface could monitor the resulting shock waves to analyze the interior of the Moon. (balkantravellers.com)
  • A view from Apollo 13 of the lunar farside showing the crater Tsiolkovsky. (nasa.gov)
  • Note the crater chains just left of center at the top, as well as in the lower left. (bigthink.com)
  • YouTube user Clifton Kern posted video recorded in Pennsylvania during the eclipse - the flash is visible in the bottom left of the Moon at 2:11:01. (abc.net.au)
  • Archimedes, at left, is 82 km in diameter and centered at 29.7 N, 4 W. The crater floor is filled with smooth mare material and the ejecta blanket is below it. (vias.org)
  • Above it, slightly to the left, there's Cassini, a medium sized crater with two smaller craters inside (Cassini A and B). (astrobin.com)
  • To the far left, another two big craters, Aristotelest (the biggest) and Eudoxus. (astrobin.com)
  • A flow of material appears to have been transported from the top left of the scene and into the crater. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Flow features are also seen outside of the craters, and in particular, at the center left of the image near the top of the frame. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Material also seems to have cascaded from the larger crater's rim and into a neighboring smaller crater, at the far left of the image. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Unlike the Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere to protect it - so even tiny rocks can hit its surface. (abc.net.au)
  • The surface of Callisto is deeply pockmarked with craters. (windows2universe.org)
  • You only have to take a look at the Moon to see that it's had something of a rough time during its roughly 4.5-billion-year history, but a new study suggests that it's survived more early asteroid hits than its surface actually shows today. (sciencealert.com)
  • The moon is expecting a delivery soon - three tons of space trash that will crash into its surface at around 6,000 miles an hour. (wvpe.org)
  • Things have hit the moon in the past, but they were basically intentional collisions, or we tried to land and crashed on the surface," Reddy said. (balkantravellers.com)
  • As New Horizons zoomed past Pluto's surface, it performed a tightly choreographed series of maneuvers to learn as much as possible about the world and its five moons, including giant Charon. (astronomy.com)
  • The mission was designed to search for water on the surface of the Moon. (bartleby.com)
  • What does the surface of the moon look like? (superlativescience.com)
  • Despite the size of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, most scientists agree that it is unlikely that the crater was caused by a large meteor traveling at a high velocity when it collided with the Moon. (brighthub.com)
  • Because most of the flashes are very dim, they must be recorded against a dark background, so scientists try to capture them happening on the 'dark side' of the Moon. (abc.net.au)
  • These relatively soft landings, leaving next to no permanent trace of ever having happened, could explain why the Moon as it currently looks doesn't match up with what scientists think happened to it in the first billion years or so. (sciencealert.com)
  • They both show evidence of large imacts which were almost enough to break the moon apart. (windows2universe.org)
  • There are also very large craters to be found there. (windows2universe.org)
  • In keeping with the National Park's mission to maintain landscapes that are indigenous and pristine, they erected a large, robust fence around the entire crater rim. (temptationtours.com)
  • Young unnamed crater located within Mare Fecunditatis. (nasa.gov)
  • A 'Harvest Moon' rising over the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains as seen from Pasadena, CA in September 2016. (nasa.gov)
  • That was before the Moon became tidally locked, so it wasn't keeping any one face directed towards the Earth. (apod.com)
  • Astronomy.com As New Horizons team members await for flyby confirmation, they share insights into what they already are seeing on Pluto's and Charon's intriguing surfaces, including craters, dark poles, and possibly even snow. (astronomy.com)
  • These craters lie in the deepest, western portion of Hellas, and such a clear view is unusual because dust clouds typically obscure the basin floor. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The drawings began with Forget sitting by her telescope and peering at individual craters and was completed using high-resolution photos of the lunar landscape taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter . (concordia.ca)
  • The orbiter takes several passes while photographing these craters, so the shadowing is different each time. (concordia.ca)
  • The moon's famous Tycho crater, as seen at a low angle by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (nasa.gov)
  • Lunar Orbiter 1 view of the Korolev basin on the far side of the Moon. (nasa.gov)
  • 3) The crater walls and ejecta show a high degree of spatial heterogeneity and evidence for massive breccia blocks. (usgs.gov)
  • The craters are caused by objects from space hitting it. (answers.com)
  • Spanish astronomers have reported that a space rock hit the Moon at 61,000 kilometres per hour during the eclipse, carving out a crater nearly 15 metres across. (abc.net.au)
  • Reddy's group has cataloged nearly 200 objects drifting in the "lunar space" between Earth and the Moon. (balkantravellers.com)
  • A brilliant full Moon rises over the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (nasa.gov)
  • Seven craters on the Moon named after the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger. (nasa.gov)
  • The moon is perfect for studying craters," Sara Mazrouei, a planetary scientist who led the new research during her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, told Space.com. (programesecure.com)
  • Subsequent erosion has partially filled the crater, which is now only 150 meters (550 feet) deep. (nasa.gov)
  • I would expect the far side to be more cratered, as the near side was partially shielded by the Earth. (apod.com)
  • Prepare for Cold Air is an excellent pre-visit activity to prepare your students for a winter visit to Craters of the Moon. (nps.gov)
  • With a yearning to visit the forbidden "Crater" on the Moon before he gets shipped out, his friends convince Caleb that they should take a risky road trip to the hole in the Moon. (acedmagazine.com)
  • The most common complaint I hear when people come to visit is Craters of the Moon. (newsradio1310.com)
  • Animals that are unique to Craters of the Moon and the surrounding area include subspecies of Great Basin pocket mouse, pika, yellow pine chipmunk, and yellow-bellied marmot are found nowhere else in the world. (wikivoyage.org)
  • Moon, the area around Plato crater (the biggest in this image, with an "ear" to its right). (astrobin.com)