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3. Lunar Landscape
• Surface of the moon from a telescope light and dark colored
areas with bowl shaped pit are visible on Moon’s surface .
1)Craters
• It has impacts from space objects have formed craters or bowl –
shaped depression

4. 2)Maria
• They are large ,dark flat surface areas on the moon.
• Maria means sea in Latin .
• The smoothness of the maria led people long ago to think
that they might be seas of water .

5. How Maria are formed ?
• Maria formed when huge space objects collide with
the moon’s surface.
• These large areas of impact then filled with lava
,when lava cools it gives the maria their smooth
appearance and dark color

6. 3)Mountains
• They are formed around the edges of large
maria .
• The mountains probably formed from same
impact that formed from the same impact that
caused the maria .

7. 4)Highlands
• They are found near the lunar poles.
• They are higher elevations compared to maria .
• The surfaces of highlands have more craters than
maria do, so scientists believe that the high lands are
geologically older landscape.

8. 5)Valley
They are cigar shaped depressions.
Perhaps the most famous is “Alpine Valley”.
New evidence suggests that the floors of some deep
moon valleys may contain small amounts of ice .