Earth's Moon Craters

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Across Venus’s surface is thousand impact craters. On Earth's moon craters show many different range of degradation. This is caused by constant impacts as it was formed. 80% of craters on Venus are in pristine condition. Scientist believe that the number or craters and their condition tells us that the planet when through a global resurfacing about 300 million years ago. Venus also goes through a process where the mantle temperatures rise until they would reach a level that would cause weakness in the crust. Venus has craters ranging from 3 km to 280 km in diameter.
Along with the United states the European Space Agency and Soviet Union have sent many spacecrafts to Venus. NASA’s Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to observe a planet while

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