microcrater
English
Etymology
micro- + crater
Noun
microcrater (plural microcraters)
- A tiny crater.
- 2015, James Ira Thorpe, Cameron Parvini, Josep Trigo-Rodriguez, “Detection and Characterization of Micrometeoroids with LISA Pathfinder”, in arXiv:
- These particles have been studied using a number of techniques ranging from in-situ satellite detectors to analysis of lunar microcraters to ground-based observations of zodiacal light.
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