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Ancient Moon Formation of the mare

auteur: Ron Miller/Novapix

référence: a-lun99-00022

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 23 cm

Millions of years of giant lava flows, created as asteroids puncture the lunar crust, result in the flat lava plains we see today as the lunar mare.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ERUPTION - FORMATION - ILLUSTRATION - LAVA - LUNAR SURFACE - MOON - PRECAMBRIAN - PRIMITIVE EARTH - SATELLITE - SEA - VOLCANO -