Palimpsest

Rarity: Common

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A palimpsest , in planetary astronomy, is an ancient crater that has been degraded over time. They may also be referred to as "ghost craters", "degraded craters", "buried craters", or "pathological craters".

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Palimpsest (planetary astronomy)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA, Voyager 2, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.