Illustration: Mare Imbrium taken from Apollo 17 in 1972. Left of centre is the Pytheas crater. Near the top is the Copernicus crater. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a striking image that shows what happened when a meteor crashed on Earth 50,000 years ago. The satellite captured a meteor crater, also known as ...

Through a telescope, Copernicus offers lots of detail including terraced walls and three central mountain peaks which formed as part of the impact process that created the main crater. Without ...

We just want to give you a taste of what a shadowed crater looks like, so the going here is really pretty easy! First, locate the two craters Kepler and Copernicus which were targets pointed out ...