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craterlet
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of craterlet1
Example Sentences
“It’s just a question of whether Ladee made a localized craterlet on a hillside or scattered debris across a flat area. It will be interesting to see what kind of feature Ladee has created.”
By the passage of the water, some part of the fissures was often enlarged into a round hole of considerable size, ending in a craterlet at the surface.
There is a craterlet on the S. rim and a central crater in the interior.
There are two closely parallel clefts on the N. side of the plateau running from E. to W., that nearer Dawes being the longer, and having a craterlet standing upon it about midway between its extremities.
At a peak on the N.E., the wall attains a height of nearly 12,000 feet, but sinks to a little more than a third of this height on the E. It is apparently loftiest on the N. The most conspicuous of the many craters upon it is the bright deep circular depression E. on the S. wall, and another, rather larger and less regular, on the N.W., which has a very low rim on the side facing the floor, and a craterlet on either side of the apparent gap.
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