Why Lunar Craters Loom at the Terminator
The Moon cheats the eye. Along the terminator, where lunar day falls into lunar night, a crater rim catches the Sun while its floor is denied it; what reads as violence in the surface is often geometry, staged by a grazing beam. The spectacle is ruthless. Far from that boundary, the same bowl can look almost tame, its relief stripped of the long black evidence that makes it seem immense.Depth is t...More
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