The Caloris Basin Is an Immense Impact Crater on Mercury

question 241

Multiple Choice

The Caloris Basin is an immense impact crater on Mercury, which is unusual in that the opposite side of the planet shows jumbled terrain that resulted from shock waves created by the impact. This combination has also been found

• A) nowhere else in the solar system.
• B) on the Moon.
• C) on Earth.
• D) on Saturn.

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