Having one or more craters; marked or damaged by crater formation, like the surface of the moon or a bomb-damaged area.
From crater (from Greek krater, a mixing bowl) + -ed suffix. The shape of a large bowl-like depression resembled the ancient Greek vessel used for mixing wine and water, so the term transferred to describe similar geological formations.
The moon's craters were originally thought to be volcanic, but many were created by asteroid impacts that happened billions of years ago—each crater tells the story of a cosmic collision frozen in time.
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