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How are Mercury and Earth's moon similar?

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In general, the surface of Mercury is similar to the Moon (i.e. heavily cratered due to a lack of a heavy atmosphere to erode away primordial impacts). However, there are some key differences: 1) There are few maria on Mercury and they are small.
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