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Why is the moon covered in craters and the Earth isn’t?  The moon has thousands of craters. On the Earth there are only a few craters we can see. The solar system has comets, 8 main planets, asteroids, the sun and the moon. All of the planets revolve around the sun. The biggest crater on the moon is called the Hertzitsprung .There is also a crater that is larger than Canada! The Herzitsprung is 369 miles (594 km).On Earth we can only see a few meteorite craters because they have been moved away by wind, rain, different speeds through space and other forces. Many rocks have hit the Earth.  

The moon is covered in thousands of craters. The Earth has very few meteorite craters we can see. We only see a few craters on Earth because they have been moved away by wind, rain, speeds through space and other forces. There are many rocks have hit the Earth. A meteorite crater is 43 miles (969km) east if flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert on the U.S.

Impact craters are few and far between on the Earth. The Earth has received just as many incoming meteorite craters as the moon. The moon on the other side has no atmosphere and is washed away, thus every meteor aimed at the moon. The craters have remained essentially unchanged for 4 billion years. When a piece of rock from outer space hit the Earth’s atmosphere, it encounters a lot of friction as it bumps into high-altitude air molecules at very high speed. Earth’s atmosphere has gas, water, fire and is the planet u can live on.