Meteorite Craters

Meteorite craters are bowl-shaped holes left when a space rock hits the surface of a planet or moon. Impacts can be small or huge, and some craters are tens of kilometres wide. Craters can be seen on the Moon, Mars and Mercury.

The Chicxulub crater in Mexico was created by an asteroid impact that is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Craters on Earth are harder to spot because weather and plants change the land over time.