Craters on the Moon When you are outside walking on the road, you've probably never seen a crater caused by a meteorite or asteroid. That's because earth has an atmosphere that protects it from crashing asteroids and meteorites. When you look at the moon, there are craters covering a large portion of it. If you were on the moon, well then you would be dead, but you could see that there are craters covering craters inside other craters covering the whole surface. So how many craters are on the moon? Craters are basically holes in the ground made by impacts 1 . Craters are a lot more abundant on the surface of the moon than on earth “ Ridge and Crater on Fractured Floor ” by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center licensed under CC BY 2.0 The moon is around ¼ the size of earth with a radius of 1,737 kilometers. The moon is made of rocks and metal with a outer crust with rocky soil with different colors 2 . The moon has no atmosphere unlike earth so there is nothing to protect the moo