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crater

[krey-ter] / ˈkreɪ tər /


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In an emotional moment, the crew suggested naming one crater after Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

NASA’s Artemis II crew described the far side of the moon in eloquent detail, named a crater after Cmdr.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team discovered a new crater by carefully comparing images of the same area taken at different times.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Artemis astronauts at the outer edge of human space travel had an emotional moment Monday as they proposed to name a crater in honor of the deceased wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

By the standards of today, crater research in the early 1900s was a trifle unsophisticated, to say the least.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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