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Meaning of "impact basin"

An impact basin refers to a large crater-like structure on the surface of a celestial body, such as a planet or moon, that is caused by the impact of a meteor or asteroid. These basins are characterized by their circular shape and the presence of multiple concentric rings

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Hellas impact basin.
The star on the nearside represents the center of the proposed impact basin.
Scientists continue to study this impact basin and its surrounding terrain.
It is located in a region to the southwest of the Mare Orientale impact basin.
There is evidence of an enormous impact basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
This cliff forms the southwestern rim of the Nectaris impact basin.
Sputnik Planitia may have originated as an impact basin that subsequently collected volatile ices.
The volcano is located just inside the rim of the Caloris impact basin.
The Imbrium impact basin.
The graben is most likely associated with the formation of the Isidis impact basin.
Dorothy Crater is the largest known impact basin on Pluto 's moon Charon.
Gerasimovich is located at the antipode of the Mare Crisium impact basin.
Rembrandt is the second largest impact basin ( crater ) on Mercury after Caloris.
Mare Ingenii is located at the antipode of the Mare Imbrium impact basin.
Van Eyck is a 271 km diameter impact basin in the Shakespeare quadrangle of Mercury.

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The Cassini spacecraft stares directly into the great Odysseus impact basin on Tethys.
The impact basin it is located in is 825 kilometers across.
Both valleys radiate away from the impact basin to the north.
However, it is clearly centered within a large impact basin.
On the opposite side of the planet is an impact basin called Hellas.
Partially exposed bedrock is exposed within the Koval'sky impact basin.
The most likely source is the Mare Imbrium impact basin to the northwest.
These ranges form a double-ring around the Mare Orientale impact basin.
The Schrödinger impact basin.
Further, Mare Marginis is not centered on any clear, large impact basin.
However, the basin is not currently recognized as an impact basin by the IAU.
It completely encircles the Mare Orientale, and forms part of a massive impact basin feature.
Along the terminator, at lower left, part of a large impact basin can be seen.
This crater lies within the Mendel-Rydberg Basin, a 630 km wide impact basin of Nectarian age.

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