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Suppose we see a very high density of craters on a surface. What does that tell us?.

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If we assume that comets and asteroids strike all regions of a planetary body at approximately the same rate (an assumption that may or may not be correct), every region should have the same number of craters, or crater density. Regions with higher crater densities, therefore, tend to be older than regions with lower crater densities.

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