microcrater

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ crater

Noun

microcrater (plural microcraters)

1. A tiny crater.
   • 2015, James Ira Thorpe, Cameron Parvini, Josep Trigo-Rodriguez, “Detection and Characterization of Micrometeoroids with LISA Pathfinder”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     These particles have been studied using a number of techniques ranging from in-situ satellite detectors to analysis of lunar microcraters to ground-based observations of zodiacal light.