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Greeks The Satellite Automobile Interkozmosz (tin toy, 1970's, Hungary, FLIM Lemezáru Gyáregység) km km THE MOON The most ancient formations of the lunar surface are the >4-billion-year-old highlands, and the areas where 3474 12742 the surface is so densely covered with craters, that a newly created one surely wipes away a few earlier craters. : The large basins and the smallest craters were all scooped out by asteroids and space debris coming from Lunokhod 2 the outer space and hitting the Moon. The “seas” (mare) are actually ancient lava plains, which filled up the Moon Moon Earth: earlier large impact basins with many layers of lava. The rocks on the lunar surface have been broken up, Illustration: László Herbszt pulverised by “space dust” for billions of years, creating moon dust covering the entire surface. The “face” Diameter of the Moon has been unchanged for billions of years. It looked almost the same in the age of the dinosaurs, when the continents of the Earth had completely different shapes. The youngest formations are the light- rayed craters. There is no visible sign of water: even the meandering channels of the Moon were formed by volcanic lava.