Impact crater

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface o a planet, muin, or ither solit bouk in the Solar Seestem or ensewhaur, formed bi the hypervelocity impact o a smawer bouk wi the surface.

Impact craters in the Solar System: Tap-left: 500-kilometer muckle crater Engelier on Saturn's muin Iapetus Tap-richt: Recently formed impact crater on Mars shawing a pristine ray seestem o ejecta Bottom-left: Estimatit 50,000-year-auld Meteor Crater east o Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. Bottom-richt: The prominent crater Tycho in the soothren heichlands o the Muin