Why Are There No Smaller Craters on the Surface of Venus

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why are there no smaller craters on the surface of Venus, only bigger ones?

• A) Because Venus is so close to the Sun, the Sun's gravity pulls all smaller chunks of material into the Sun before they can reach Venus
• B) The seas and lakes of Venus erode away all the smaller craters when they flood
• C) In Venus' thick atmosphere all smaller chunks of material burn up before they can reach the surface
• D) Venus is so hot that smaller craters generally melt in the heat, becoming smooth surface
• E) This is an unsolved mystery in astronomy; no one knows