• Overlapping Moon Features
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    Overlapping Features Tell a Story
    Scientists can tell the relative ages of lunar features by how they overlap or crosscut. Here, a wide flat-bottomed trough, or graben, first opened (left to right), then large areas collapsed into pits (lower left to upper right), and finally lava erupted very recently within the pits. Lava moving beneath the surface may have caused these events.

    Image ID: M1108117962LR
    Camera: NAC
    Image width: 13 km (8 mi.)

  • Overlapping Moon Features

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